The bhelp Program

While the command line help is useful when you know what program to run, there will be times when you want to briefly scan a list of available programs and functions. To browse this list, run bhelp and pipe it through the less program:

bhelp | less

For those not familiar with less, you exit the less program by pressing the letter “q” on the keyboard while the X-term window has focus. The programming language is indicated by the suffix of the file name. Program bhelp lists the following:

See Appendix A for the bhelp listing.