Origins of Common Unix Programs

addr2line

c

apk

c

Alpine

apply

c

apropos

c

UCB

arch

c

ar

c

Unix

as

c

Unix

at

c

Unix

awk

c

Unix

banner

c

basename

c

batch

c

bc

c

biff

c

UCB

bison

c

FSF (clone of yacc)

cal

c

Unix

calendar

c

Unix

cap_mkdb

c

UCB

captoinfo

c

UCB

cat

c

Unix

cc

c

Unix

c++

c

Unix

chflags

c

chfn

c

UCB

chgrp

c

Unix

chmod

c

Unix

chpass

c

UCB

chsh

c

UCB

clang

c

clear

c

UCB

cmp

c

Unix

col

c

colrm

c

column

c

comm

c

Unix

compress

c

corelist

c

cp

c

Unix

cpio

c

Unix

cpp

c

Unix,

crontab

c

csh

c

UCB

csplit

c

Unix

ctags

c

ctfconv

c

ctfdump

c

ctfstrip

c

cu

c

Unix

CUPS

ss

Apple

cut

c

Unix

date

c

Unix

dbm

c

Unix

dc

c

Unix

dd

c

Unix

deroff

c

UCB

df

c

Unix

diff3

c

Unix

diff

c

Unix

dig

c

dirname

c

dnf

c

Linux

doas

c

OpenBSD

du

c

Unix

dump

c

Unix

echo

c

Unix

echoUnix

c

ed

c

Unix

edUnix

c

egrep

c

Unix

eject

c

eject

c

Various

encrypt

c

env

c

Unix

ex

c

UCB

expand

c

expr

c

Unix

ext*

c

Linux

false

c

Unix

fgen

c

fgrep

c

Unix

file

c

Unix (I wrote the Linux impl)

find

c

Unix

finger

c

UCB

flex

c

flex

c

FSF

fmt

c

UCB

fold

c

from

c

fstab

c

Unix

fstat

c

ftp

c

UCB

fuser

c

gcc

c

FSF

gcov

c

UCB

gdb

c

FSF

gencat

c

getcap

c

getconf

c

getent

c

(Sun: part of YP)

getopt

c

getopt

c

USG

ghostscript(gs)

c

Peter Deutsch

git

c

Linus,(self-disparagingly self-named)

gprof

c

FSF

gprof

c

Unix

grep

c

grep

c

Unix

groups

c

gunzip

c

gzcat

c

gzexe

c

gzip

c

h2ph

c

h2xs

c

head

c

Unix

help

c

help

c

Multiple

hexdump

c

host

c

hostname

c

hoststat

c

htpasswd

c

httpd

c

many

id

c

Unix

ifconfig

c

UCB

indent

c

UCB

info

c

FSF

install

c

Numerous

ipcrm,ipcs

c

USG

java

c/ss

Sun

join

c

Unix

jot

c

kdump

c

keynote

c

kill

c

Unix

ksh

c

Unix

ktrace

c

lam

c

last

c

lastcomm

c

last

c

Unix

ldap

c

ld

c

Unix

ldd

c

leave

c

less

c

UCB

lex

c

Unix

libnetcfg

c

libtool

c

Linux

c

llvm-config

c

ln

c

Unix

lndir

c

locale

c

locate

c

lock

c

logger

c

login

c

logname

c

look

c

lorder

c

Unix

lpq

c

UCB

lpr

c

UCB

lpr

c

Unix/UCB

lprm

c

UCB

ls

c

Unix

m4

c

Unix

machine

c

Mail

c

mail

c

Unix

mailx

c

UCB

make

c

Unix

man

c

Unix

mandoc

c

OpenBSD

md5

c

merge

c

mesg

c

uCB

mixerctl

c

mkdep

c

mkdir

c

Unix

mkfs

c

Unix

mklocale

c

mktemp

c

more

c

UCB

mount

c

Unix

mt

c

Unix

mv

c

Unix

nc

c

netstat

c

UCB

newsyslog

c

UCB

NFS

FS

Sun

nfsstat

c

Sun

nice

c

Unix

nix

c

Pkg manager from nixos

nl

c

nm

c

Unix

nohup

c

Unix

nslookup

c

objcopy

c

objdump

c

od

c

Unix

openrsync

c

OpenBSD

openssl

c

OpenSSL

otp-md5

c

otp-rmd160

c

otp-sha1

c

pagesize

c

passwd

c

Unix

paste

c

Unix

patch

c

Larry Wall

pax

c

pctr

c

perl

c

Larry

pgrep

c

piconv

c

pkg*

c

Various

pkill

c

pl2pm

c

pod2html

c

pod2man

c

pod2text

c

pod2usage

c

podchecker

c

podselect

c

pr

c

Unix

printenv

c

Unix

printf

c

Unix

/proc

k

Unix, Linux

prove

c

ps

c

Unix

purgestat

c

pwd

c

Unix

quota

c

commands

quota

c

UCB

radius

c

ranlib

c

Unix

rcs

c

Walter

rdist

c

rdistd

c

readelf

c

readlink

c

renice

c

Unix

reset

c

rev

c

rksh

c

Unix

rm

c

Unix

rmdir

c

Unix

rpcgen,rpcinfo

c

Sun

rpm

c

Red

rs

c

rsh

c

UCB

rup

c

Sun

rusers

c

Sun

rwall

c

UCB

SCCS

c

USG

scp

c

OpenBSD

script

c

UCB

sdiff

c

sed

c

Unix

sendbug

c

sendmail

c

UCB

sftp

c

sha

c

shadow

c

Unix

shar

c

sh

c

Unix

showmount

c

signify

c

OpenBSD

size

c

UCB

skeyaudit

c

skey

c

skeyinfo

c

skeyinit

c

skeyprune

c

sleep

c

Unix

smtp

c

Various

sndioctl

c

snmp

c

Various

sort

c

Unix

spell

c

split

c

ssh

c

Tatu,OpenBSD

stat

c

strings

c

Unix

strip

c

Unix

stty

c

Unix

su

c

Unix

sudo

c

OpenBSD

sync

c

Unix

systat

c

UCB?

tail

c

Unix

talk

c

UCB

tar

c

Unix

tee

c

Unix

telnet

c

UCB

test

c

Unix

tftp

c

UCB

tic

c

UCB

time

c

Unix

tmux

c

top

c

touch

c

Unix

tput

c

UCB

tr

c

Unix

true

c

Unix

tset

c

tsort

c

Unix

tty

c

Unix

UFS

c

UCB

ul

c

uname

c

USG

uncompress

c

unexpand

c

unifdef

c

uniq

c

Unix

units

c

Unix

unvis

c

uptime

c

users

c

utmp,wtmp

c

uudecode

c

uuencode

c

vacation

c

vi

c

UCB

vis

c

vmstat

c

UCB

wall

c

UCB

wc

c

Unix

w

c

UCB

what

c

USG

whatis

c

UCB

whereis

c

UCB

which

c

UCB

whoami

c

who,

c

am

who

c

Unix

whois

c

wmi

c

write

c

UCB

xargs

c

XFS

FS

Linux

X

GUI

MIT

xsubpp

c

yacc

c

Unix

yes

c

Unix

ypcat

c

yum

c

Linux

zsh

c

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