NAME brushtopbm – convert a doodle brush file into a portable bitmap SYNOPSIS brushtopbm [brushfile] DESCRIPTION Reads a Xerox doodle brush file as input. Produces a portable bitmap as output. Note that there is currently no pbmtobrush tool. SEE ALSO pbm(5) AUTHOR Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer. Index
NAME broadwayd – Broadway display server SYNOPSIS broadwayd [–port PORT] [–address ADDRESS] [–unixsocket ADDRESS] [:DISPLAY] DESCRIPTION broadwayd is a display server for the Broadway GDK backend. It allows multiple GTK+ applications to display their windows in the same web browser, by connecting to broadwayd. When using broadwayd, specify the display number to use, prefixed with a colon, similar…
NAME bro-cut – parse Bro logs SYNOPSIS bro-cut [options] [columns] DESCRIPTION Extracts the given columns from ASCII Bro logs on standard input, and outputs them to standard output. If no columns are given, all are selected. By default, bro-cut does not include format header blocks in the output. Columns are specified as a list of…
NAME brltty – refreshable braille display driver for Linux/Unix SYNOPSIS brltty [option …] DESCRIPTION brltty is a background process (daemon) which provides access to the console screen (when in text mode) for a blind person using a refreshable braille display. It drives the braille display, and provides complete screen review functionality. Some speech capability has…
NAME brecsum – Generate SHA1 sums of raw Blackberry database records. SYNOPSIS brecsum [-d db][-h][-p pin][-P pass][-v] DESCRIPTION brecsum downloads the specified database(s) and computes a SHA1 checksum on each raw record it finds. The SHA1 sums are written to stdout. This is mainly useful for verifying the integrity of restored data during testing. OPTIONS…
NAME bash, :, ., [, alias, bg, bind, break, builtin, caller, cd, command, compgen, complete, compopt, continue, declare, dirs, disown, echo, enable, eval, exec, exit, export, false, fc, fg, getopts, hash, help, history, jobs, kill, let, local, logout, mapfile, popd, printf, pushd, pwd, read, readonly, return, set, shift, shopt, source, suspend, test, times, trap, true,…
NAME brasero – Simple and easy to use CD/DVD burning application for the GNOME Desktop SYNOPSIS brasero [options] [uri] [uri] … DESCRIPTION Brasero is an easy-to-use application for burning CD-R/Ws and DVD-R/Ws. With Brasero you can create data, audio, or video CDs, DVDs, and SVCDs. You can copy existing disks, use image files, or create…
NAME rancid – Cisco configuration filter SYNOPSIS rancid [-dlCV] [-t device_type] (-f filename | hostname) rancid [-dhlCV] -t device_type (-f filename | hostname) DESCRIPTION rancid is a collection of perl(1) scripts which uses the login scripts (see clogin(1)) to login to a device, execute commands to display the configuration, etc, then filters the output for…
NAME bpython – a fancy {curses, GTK+, urwid} interface to the Python interactive interpreter SYNOPSIS bpython [options] [file [args]] bpython-gtk [options] [file [args]] bpython-urwid [options] [file [args]] DESCRIPTION The idea is to provide the user with all the features in-line, much like modern IDEs, but in a simple, lightweight package that can be run in…
NAME axgetput – upload or download files via AX.25 / axspawn Linux login session. SYNOPSIS axgetput [-b blocksize] [-i] [-v] [-h] [?] filename axgetput [-b blocksize] [-i] -s [-v] [-h] [?] [filename] DESCRIPTION -b blocksize Set the blocksize (frame length) of transmitted data. Defaults to 256 bytes which matches typical AX.25 network confurations best. -i…
NAME boxes – text mode box and comment drawing filter SYNOPSIS boxes [-hlmrv] [-a format] [-d design] [-f file] [-i indent] [-k bool] [-p pad] [-s size] [-t tabopts] [infile [outfile]] DESCRIPTION Boxes is a text filter which can draw any kind of box around its input text. Box design choices range from simple boxes…
NAME bournal – When nobody else cares what you have to say! SYNOPSIS bournal [options] DESCRIPTION bournal is a program that allows you to write personal, password-protected journal entries, as well as search through and edit old entries. Bournal has no internet capabilities, so if you’re looking for a blogging app, boy, did you install…
NAME borg – BorgBackup is a deduplicating backup program with optional compression and authenticated encryption. Borg consists of a number of commands. Each command accepts a number of arguments and options. The following sections will describe each command in detail. GENERAL Repository URLs Local filesystem (or locally mounted network filesystem): /path/to/repo – filesystem path to…
NAME bootctl – Control EFI firmware boot settings and manage boot loader SYNOPSIS bootctl [OPTIONS…] {COMMAND} DESCRIPTION bootctl can check the EFI firmware and boot loader status, list and manage available boot loaders and boot loader entries, and install, update, or remove the systemd-boot(7) boot loader on the current system. GENERIC EFI FIRMWARE/BOOT LOADER COMMANDS…
NAME bootconf – bootconf SYNOPSIS bootconf [options…] DESCRIPTION bootconf is a small utility that provides a convenient way to set or inspect some common Linux kernel boot options. bootconf updates the GRUB configuration file (/boot/grub/grub.conf in most cases). The changes will take effect, naturally, at the next reboot. The following parameters may be specified: -titles…
NAME booldnf – converts a boolean expression to the DNF SYNOPSIS echo ‘a&(!b|c&!d)’ | booldnf > result.txt DESCRIPTION booldnf is a program that reads boolean expressions from its standard input and rewrites them in Disjunctive Normal Form on its standard output. It uses the BoolStuff library. The Disjunctive Normal Form is an ORing of ANDed…
NAME bookman – Generate a book from man pages SYNOPSIS bookman[-pPxn][-o outfile][-a author][-d date][-r release] [-t title][-v volume][-c coverfile][manfile] DESCRIPTION bookman compiles a set of man pages files specified by manfile arguments, or if no manfile is given, filenames are read from standard input. OPTIONS -p PDF output format. -P Postscript output format. -x X11…
NAME bonobo-activation-server – GNOME component tracker DESCRIPTION This application tracks information about installed components and brokers components, in conjunction with its client library; libbonobo-activation. It reads the component descriptions from ${prefix}/lib/bonobo/servers/*.server. These files provide an XML description of a components capabilities which can be queried and manipulated by clients from the client library. Bonobo-activation-server also…
NAME bond2team — Converts bonding configuration to team SYNOPSIS bond2team [options] DESCRIPTION bond2team is a tool to convert bonding options to team trying as much as possible to keep the original functionality. The resulting files are saved in a temporary directory using ifcfg style by default. In the case of converting an ifcfg file, it…
NAME bon_csv2html program to convert CSV format Bonnie++ data to a HTML form using tables suitable for display on a web page. NB Lynx can’t display this properly, and due to the size it probably requires 1024×768 monitor to display properly. bon_csv2txt program to convert CSV format Bonnie++ data to plain-text format suitable for pasting…