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bt-device – a bluetooth device manager Synopsisbt-device [OPTION…] Help Options:   -h, –help Application Options:   -a, –adapter=<name|mac>   -l, –list   -c, –connect=<mac>   -d, –disconnect=<name|mac>   -r, –remove=<name|mac>   -i, –info=<name|mac>   -s, –services <name|mac> [<pattern>]   –set <name|mac> <property> <value>   -v, –verbose DescriptionThis utility is used to manage Bluetooth devices. You can list added devices, connect to a new device, disconnect device, remove added device, show…

bt-adapter – a bluetooth agent Synopsisbt-agent [OPTION…] Help Options:   -h, –help Application Options:   -c, –capability=<capability>   -p, –pin   -d, –daemon DescriptionThis interactive utility is used to manage incoming Bluetooth requests (eg. request of pincode, request of authorize a connection/service request, etc). Options-h, –help  Show help -c, –capability <capability>  Specify the input and output capabilities of the…

bt-adapter – a bluetooth adapter manager Synopsisbt-adapter [OPTION…] Help Options:   -h, –help Application Options:   -l, –list   -a, –adapter=<name|mac>   -i, –info   -d, –discover   –set <property> <value> DescriptionThis utility is used to manage Bluetooth adapters. You can list all available adapters, show information about adapter, change adapter properties or discover remote devices. Options-h, –help  Show help -l, –list  List…

bssh/bvnc/bshell – Browse for SSH/VNC servers on the local network Synopsisbssh bvnc bshell Descriptionbssh/bvnc/bshell browses for SSH/VNC servers on the local network, shows them in a GUI for the user to select one and finally calls ssh/vncviewer after a selection was made. If the binary is called as bssh only ssh servers will be shown….

bsqlodbc – batch SQL script processor using ODBC Synopsis[-hqv ] [-U username ] [-P password ] [-S server ] [-D database ] [-i input_file ] [-o output_file ] [-e error_file ] [-t field_term ] [-V odbc_version ] Descriptionis a utility program distributed with FreeTDS. is a non-interactive equivalent of the `isql’ utility programs distributed by…

bsqldb – batch SQL script processor using DB-Library Synopsis[-hqv ] [-S servername ] [-D database ] [-U username ] [-P password ] [-i input_file ] [-o output_file ] [-e error_file ] [-H hostname ] [-t field_term ] [-R pivot_description ] Descriptionis a utility program distributed with FreeTDS. is a non-interactive equivalent of the "isql" utility…

bspatch – apply a patch built with bsdiff(1) SynopsisAo Ar oldfile Ac Ao Ar newfile Ac Ao Ar patchfile Ac Descriptiongenerates Ao Ar newfile Ac from Ao Ar oldfile Ac and Ao Ar patchfile Ac where Ao Ar patchfile Ac is a binary patch built by bsdiff(1). uses memory equal to the size of Ao…

bsondump – MongoDB BSON Utility SynopsisThe bsondump converts BSON files into human-readable formats, including JSON. For example, bsondump is useful for reading the output files generated by mongodump. IMPORTANT: bsondump is a diagnostic tool for inspecting BSON files, not a tool for data ingestion or other application use. Optionsbsondump bsondump –help, -h Returns information on…

 bsmtp – Bacula’s SMTP client (mail submission program) Synopsisbsmtp [options] <recipient> <…> Descriptionbsmtp is a simple mail user agent designed to permit more flexibility than the standard mail programs typically found on Unix systems, and to ease portability. It can even run on Windows machines. It is used by the Director daemon to send notifications and…

bsetroot – blackbox utility to change root window appearance Synopsisbsetroot -help bsetroot [ -display display ] -solid color bsetroot [ -display display ] -mod x y -fg color -bg color bsetroot [ -display display ] -gradient texture -from color -to color DescriptionBsetroot is a utility that can control the appearance of the root window in…

bsetbg – utility to manipulate the appearance of the X11 desktop’s root window. Synopsisbsetbg [options] image Descriptionbsetbg is intended to provide a standard method for the Blackbox window manager to alter the background of the root window (although it will work with any other window manager as well). bsetbg acts as a wrapper both to…

bsearch – manages one-time passwords Synopsisbsearch [-KVvh ] [-b block-size ] [-m max-cache-size ] file [key …] DescriptionThe bsearch program performs binary searches of file which must be a sorted flat text file. Each line is a record. Each record starts with a key that is optionally followed by whitespace and a value. Whitespace may…

tar – manipulate tape archives Synopsis[bundled-flags Ao args Ac [Ao file Ac | Ao pattern Ac … ] ] Br q Fl c [options ] [files | directories ] Br q Fl r | Fl u –f archive-file [options ] [files | directories ] Br q Fl t | Fl x [options ] [patterns ]…

bsdiff – generate a patch between two binary files SynopsisAo Ar oldfile Ac Ao Ar newfile Ac Ao Ar patchfile Ac Descriptioncompares Ao Ar oldfile Ac to Ao Ar newfile Ac and writes to Ao Ar patchfile Ac a binary patch suitable for use by bspatch(1). When Ao Ar oldfile Ac and Ao Ar newfile…

cpio – copy files to and from archives SynopsisBr q Fl i [options ] [pattern … ] [< archive ] Br q Fl o [options ] < name-list [> archive ] Br q Fl p [options ] dest-dir < name-list Descriptioncopies files between archives and directories. This implementation can extract from tar, pax, cpio, zip,…

write – send a message to another user Synopsisuser [tty ] DescriptionThe utility allows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from your terminal to theirs. When you run the command, the user you are writing to gets a message of the form: Message from yourname [at] yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ……

from – print names of those who have sent mail Synopsis[-c ] [-f file ] [-s sender ] [user ] DescriptionThe utility prints out the mail header lines from the invoker’s mailbox. The following options are available: -c Just print a count of messages and exit. -f file The supplied file is examined instead of…

csh – a shell (command interpreter) with C-like syntax Synopsiscsh [-bcefimnstVvXx [argument … ] ] csh [-l ] Descriptioncsh is a command language interpreter incorporating a history mechanism (see Sx History substitutions ) , job control facilities (see Sx Jobs ) , interactive file name and user name completion (see Sx File name completion )…

bs11nread – Barry Project’s program to read database serialization files. Synopsisbs11nread [-f file][-h][-S] Descriptionbs11nread reads Boost serialization files that were saved with the btool program, and dumps the database records in human readable format to stdout. This program is only available if Barry is compiled with Boost support enabled. Options-f file Filename of Boost serialization…

brushtopbm – convert a doodle brush file into a portable bitmap Synopsisbrushtopbm [brushfile] DescriptionReads a Xerox doodle brush file as input. Produces a portable bitmap as output. Note that there is currently no pbmtobrush tool. See Alsopbm(5) AuthorCopyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer.