====== Commands ======

The terminal commands for working each tilde account. For how to use the programs themselves, see [[tilde:apps|Tilde Apps]]. Adapted from the [[https://github.com/brennanbrown/tilde|tilde repo]] wiki.

===== Connecting =====

^ Host ^ Command ^ Notes ^
| tilde.town | ''ssh you@tilde.town'' | |
| tilde.pink | ''ssh you@tilde.pink'' | |
| tilde.club | ''ssh you@tilde.club'' | |
| cosmic.voyage | ''ssh cosmic.voyage'' | with a ''Host'' entry in ''~/.ssh/config'' |
| sdf.org | ''ssh sdf.org'' | your sdf login may differ from your usual handle |
| envs.net | ''ssh envs.net'' | ''mosh'' also supported |
| tilde.green | ''ssh tilde.green'' | ''mosh'' also supported |
| rw.rs | ''ssh rw.rs'' | |
| tilde.team | ''ssh you@tilde.team'' | shell access disabled since the Aug 2026 incident |

''finger user@host'' works from any machine, no login needed.

===== town =====

tilde.town bundles its tools behind one launcher. ''town help'' or ''town menu'' lists everything; ''town aup'' shows the acceptable use policy.

Writing and community:

  * ''town feels'': the ttbp diary client (''town neofeels'' is the newer version)
  * ''town bbj'': the tildeverse forum
  * ''town mail'': local mail (also plain ''mail'')
  * ''town bink'': share a file, get a link
  * ''town bulletin'', ''town linkulator'': shared link boards
  * ''town planet'': the town blog aggregator
  * ''town graffiti'': edit the communal page
  * ''town poem'', ''town qotd'', ''town nicethings'': little daily texts
  * ''town botany'': tend your plant

People and places:

  * ''town explore'', ''town frnds'', ''town findusr'', ''town birthday'': browse the town and its people
  * ''town chat'': opens weechat connected to the local IRC server (''#tildetown'')
  * ''town pairing'': share a terminal with another user
  * ''town stats'': server stats as JSON
  * ''town motd'', ''town welcome'': login messages

Utilities:

  * ''town request-gemini'': get served space in ''public_gemini/''
  * ''town request-gitea'': get an account on git.tilde.town
  * ''town contrib'': submit a program to the town launcher
  * ''town indexme'': generate an ''index.html'' for a directory
  * ''town rodo'': a small todo list
  * ''town sdate'': the Eternal September date
  * ''town my'': run ''our/'' user-scripts under your account

Games: ''town asciifarm'', ''town battilde'', ''town chess'', ''town chin'', ''town da'', ''town dcss'', ''town mines7'', ''town mosaic-tetris'', ''town potato'', ''town tron'', ''town tui48'', plus toys: ''bunnysay'', ''cats'', ''drift'', ''lavalamp'', ''smudge'', ''tilde-train'', ''lain''.

===== club =====

  * ''bb'': bashblog. ''bb post'' to write, ''bb rebuild'' to regenerate, ''blog/.config'' for settings
  * ''alpine'': mail client for the ''~/.mail/'' maildir (''mutt'' and ''mail'' also installed)
  * ''weechat'', ''irssi'', ''byobu'': chat and sessions
  * ''chfn'', ''finger'': finger fields and ''.plan'' files
  * ''weather <city>'': local weather report

===== pink =====

Minimal: publishing is just files in directories.

  * ''irssi'', ''byobu'': IRC and persistent sessions
  * ''finger'': serves ''.plan'', ''.project'', and ''public_gemini/.finger''
  * ''mail'', ''mutt'', ''alpine'': mail clients
  * Publish gemini: write ''.gmi'' files into ''public_gemini/''
  * Publish gopher: edit ''public_gopher/index.gph''

Note the NetBSD paths: packages are installed in ''/usr/pkg/bin'' (pkgsrc), so paths differ from the linux hosts.

===== cosmic =====

  * ''man cosmic.voyage'': the introduction manual
  * ''menu'': interactive menu
  * ''ship'': claim a ship, colony, or outpost; creates ''~/ships/<name>/''
  * ''log'': publish a ''.txt'' message to the QEC relay (web, gopher, gemini at once); wrap at 80 columns
  * ''roster'': every ship and its author
  * ''latest'': recent relay transmissions
  * ''wiki'', ''faq'': documentation in lynx
  * ''chat'', ''bbj'', ''botany'': tildeverse toys
  * ''passwd'': change the signup password (used for IMAP/POP3/SMTP, not ssh)

===== sdf =====

  * ''mkhomepg'': set up ''~/html'' (web space at ''bren.sdf.org'')
  * ''mkgopher'': set up ''~/gopher''
  * ''phlog'': post to your gopher phlog (phlog = gopher blog)
  * ''bboard'': SDF's bulletin board
  * ''com'': the classic SDF chat
  * ''maint'': account maintenance menu
  * ''validate'': upgrade membership level (ARPA)
  * ''alpine'', ''pine'', ''mutt'': mail; ''irc'', ''irssi'', ''weechat'': chat; ''micro'', ''nano'': editors

Publishing means editing files directly: ''~/html'' is served at ''bren.sdf.org'', ''~/gopher'' goes out over the gopher server.

===== envs =====

  * ''mutt'': mail (IMAP at ''mail.envs.net''; ''alpine'' also installed)
  * ''weechat'', ''irssi'', ''byobu'', ''bbj'', ''finger''
  * ''mosh you@envs.net'': survives dropped connections

===== green =====

  * ''weechat'', ''irssi'', ''byobu'', ''mutt'', ''alpine'', ''finger''
  * ''mosh you@tilde.green''

===== rwrs =====

Minimal: ''weechat'', ''irssi'', ''nano'', ''vim'', ''rsync''. No launcher scripts, no ''micro'', ''mutt'', ''byobu'', or ''finger''.

===== See Also =====

  * [[tilde:start|tilde.town]]
  * [[tilde:apps|Tilde Apps]]
  * [[tilde:glossary|Glossary]]
  * [[tilde:accounts|Tilde Accounts]]
  * [[tilde:town_square|Town Square]]
  * [[terminal:tools:ssh_tilde|SSH: tilde.town]]
  * [[start|Return to wiki home]]