Roadmap of Commands

Scripts

apedocs - Opens \index.html (the main APE documentation page) in the browser.
browse - Starts Windows explorer in the APE root.
bsh - Starts the java BeanShell with the graphical console (and waits for completion.)
bshi - Starts the java BeanShell in text-only mode.
bshw - Starts the java BeanShell in graphical console mode in the background.
ctelnet - Starts the console telnet program.
check - A CVS shortcut that lists changed files in the current directory.
country - look up a country code. Uses /etc/country-codes.txt.
csscheck - Cascading Style Sheet validator, or use the web-based version.
cygfind - Shortcut to a real find program.
cygsort - Shortcut to a real sort program.
docsrv - Starts the APE documentation server.
em - Shortcut to xemacs, forks in background.
emsh - Shortcut to xemacs, starts shell mode.
ens - Shortcut to enscript.exe with no parameters.
enscript - An interface to GNU enscript which converts to PostScript and then prints the document using GhostScript. See local docs. Various programming languages can be pretty-printed with the -ELANG option.
genjavac - Starts the Generic Java compiler. [Local Docs]
firebird - Starts the Mozilla Firebird browser.
gnuplot - Starts Gnuplot.
gs - Starts GhostScript interpreter.
gsc - Starts GhostScript interpreter in command-line mode.
gsp - Prints the specified files to the default printer.
gspc - Prints the specified files to the default printer with minimized interaction.
gv - Starts GhostView.
idle - Starts IDLE, Python Integrated Development Environment.
javaapi - Opens most recent javadocs in browser. (Launches docsrv)
javadocs - Opens most recent java root document in browser (Launches docsrv)
jtags - Creates Emacs TAGS file for Java files.
lensort.pl - Sorts lines by length, then alphabetically.
links - Starts "Useful Links" page in browser.
lookup - Look up a word in the dictionary \mks\rootdir\etc\words (can be regular expression).
lynx - Starts the lynx textmode Web browser.
perldocs - Displays Perl documentation in your browser.
postal - Look up postal codes. Uses \etc\postal.txt
pythonwin - Shortcut to start Python for Windows.
randword - Selects an arbitrary number of words at random.
say - Speak a word, phrase, or file.
state - Look up state codes. Uses \etc\states.txt
tags - Builds TAGS file for use with emacs' JDE mode.
telsvr - Turns your system into a quick-n-dirty telnet server so you can log in remotely.
times - Shortcut to a program that times a process.
tomcat - Starts or stops the Tomcat engine for developing and serving Java Server Pages and Java Servlets.
ulookup - Look up a unit of measurement in the \etc\units.dat file (can be regular expression).
units - Starts the units program properly.
vnc - Starts the vnc program in server mode.
vnckill - Stops a running vnc server.
vncview - Starts the vnc viewer program.
weather - Displays the weather for a specified city or zip code (default is Boulder)
winamp - Runs Winamp player.
xearth - Displays a view of the earth and current sunlight zones.
xem - Shortcut to XEmacs, forks in background.

Binaries

anagram - Generate anagrams of a word. Best used with the moby dictionaries on the APEX.
atomtime - Synchronize your computer's clock to the atomic clock
blat - A program to send e-mail from the command line
bmake - Borland version of make.
cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output
cksum - checksum and count the bytes in a file
clipdump - dump the contents of the clipboard to stdout
comm - compare two sorted files line by line
copytosystem - copies files to system directories
csplit - split a file into sections determined by context lines
cut - remove sections from each line of files
curl - fetch files across the internet via FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. [Homepage]
cvs - A great version control system.
dos2unix - converts CR/LF in files.
down - shuts down a computer.
expand - convert tabs to spaces
fmt - simple optimal text formatter
fold - wrap each input line to fit in specified width
gmake - GNU version of make.
head - output the first part of files
iconv - Convert between character encodings [Local Docs]
jad - a Java decompiler.
java2html - a Java to HTML converter.
join - join lines of two files on a common field
mdbpassw - Get/set/clear the password for a Microsoft Access 95/97 database.
md5sum - compute and check MD5 message digest
newsid - SID changer.
nmake - Microsoft version of make.
nqc - Not-Quite-C compiler for Lego Mindstorms
nl - number lines of files
od - dump files in octal and other formats
paste - merge lines of files
pkzip - command-line unzipper (docs)
ptx - produce a permuted index of file contents
pr - convert text files for printing
prfile - print files
From PuTTY, a series of networking utilities. [Local Docs]
- PuTTY (the Telnet and SSH client itself)
- PSCP (an SCP client, i.e. command-line secure file copy)
- PSFTP (an SFTP client, i.e. general file transfer sessions much like FTP)
- PuTTYtel (a Telnet-only client)
- Plink (a command-line interface to the PuTTY back ends)
- Pageant (an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP and Plink)
- PuTTYgen (an RSA key generation utility).
registry - List or modify Windows registry settings
rhostname - look up a machine by IP or DNS name
scacl - View and modify the security settings of NT services [Local docs]
sort - sort lines of text files
split - split a file into pieces
splitz - Split an image into pieces
sum - checksum and count the blocks in a file
tab2space - Expand tabs and convert carriage returns
tac - concatenate and print files in reverse
tail - output the last part of files
tidy - validates HTML documents [homepage] or [Local Docs]
tidygui - validate HTML documents with a GUI [homepage]
tr - translate or delete characters
tsort - perform topological sort
unexpand - convert spaces to tabs
uniq - remove duplicate lines from a sorted file
units - one of the coolest programs to convert between different measurement units. The units file is great reading.
unix2dos - converts CR/LF in files.
wc - print the number of bytes, words, and lines in files
webscan - detects security problems in your Web servers.
wget - A program to grab files via HTTP or FTP, including recursive grabs. [wget homepage]
yabasic - A lightweight basic interpreter. [homepage] or [Local Docs]

There are various helpful utilities from SysInternals.com. Many of these utilities require that you run them from their home directory. Run si.bat to start Explorer in the \SysInternals directory.

dbgview - displays debug information
diskmon - monitors disk usage (NT/2000 only)
filemon - monitors file accesses
handleex - shows the handles (files, directories, registry keys, DLLs) that a process has open. Now supports Windows 9x/Me.
nthandle - shows processes using specific files (NT only)
listdlls - command-line utility to list open .dll files
openlist - shows open files on your system.
pmon - process monitor (NT only)
portmon - COM/LPT port monitor
pstools - A suite of programs to list and modify processes (NT/2000 only):
- PsGetSid - display the SID of a computer or a user
- PsInfo - display info about the Windows system.
- PsKill - kill processes by name or process ID
- PsList - list detailed information about processes
- PsLoggedOn - see who's logged on locally and via resource sharing (full source is included)
- PsLogList - dump event log records
- PsService - view and control services
- PsShutdown - shuts down and optionally reboots a computer
- PsUptime - shows you how long a system has been running since its last reboot
regmon - displays registry accesses.
sdelete - Secure delete--really deletes and overwrites a file.
shareenum - ShareEnum - Lists windows sharepoints.
tcpview - Graphical TCP connection monitor.
tdimon - TCP and UDP monitor.
tokenmon - NT/2000 security token activity viewer.

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