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NAME sieve-dump – Pigeonhole’s Sieve script binary dump tool SYNOPSIS sieve-dump [options] sieve-binary [out-file] DESCRIPTION The sieve-dump command is part of the Pigeonhole Project (pigeonhole(7)), which adds Sieve (RFC 5228) support to the Dovecot secure IMAP and POP3 server (dovecot(1)). Using the sieve-dump command, Sieve binaries, which are produced for instance by sievec(1), can be…

NAME bombardment – Run siege with an ever-increasing number of users SYNOPSIS bombardment [urlfile] [clients] [increment] [trials] [delay] bombardment urls.txt 5 10 20 1 DESCRIPTION bombardment is part of the siege distribution. It calls siege with an initial number of clients. When that run finishes, it immediately calls siege again with that number of clients…

NAME siege is a HTTP/FTP load tester and benchmarking utility. SYNOPSIS siege[options] siege[options]<URL> siege[options] – g<URL> siege[options] – f urls.txt DESCRIPTION siege is a multi-threaded HTTP/FTP load tester and benchmarking utility. It supports most of the features detailed in RFCs 2616 (HTTP) and 959 (FTP). Properties can be set at both from the command line…

NAMEsiege.config – builds a siege.conf template in the user’s home directory. INTRODUCTIONsiege‘s default settings are stored in $HOME/.siege/siege.conf. This utility will create a new siege.conf if one does not already exist. Generally speaking you should not have to run this command with siege releases equal or later to 4.0.0. At start up, siege checks for…

NAME Shutter – Feature-rich Screenshot Tool SYNOPSIS shutter [options] COPYRIGHT Shutter is Copyright (C) by Mario Kemper and Shutter Team DESCRIPTION Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – apply different effects to it, draw on it to…

NAME shuf – generate random permutations SYNOPSIS shuf [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/] shuf ,-e /[,OPTION/]… [,ARG/]… shuf ,-i LO-HI /[,OPTION/]… DESCRIPTION Write a random permutation of the input lines to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -e, –echo treat…

NAME shtoolize – Build individual GNU shtool scripts VERSION GNU shtool 2.0.8 (18-Jul-2008) SYNOPSIS shtoolize [-h] [-v] [-q] [-o script] module [ module … ] DESCRIPTION The shtoolize program builds individual GNU shtool scripts (written to the default output file "shtool" or to the specified script) out of one or more shtool ingredient modules. Available…

NAME GNU shtool – The GNU Portable Shell Tool VERSION GNU shtool 2.0.8 (18-Jul-2008) SYNOPSIS shtool [ global_options ] command [ command_options ] [ command_args ] DESCRIPTION GNU shtool is a compilation of small but very stable and portable shell scripts into a single shell tool. All ingredients were in successful use over many years…

NAME shtool version – GNU shtool maintain version information file SYNOPSIS shtool version [-l|–language lang] [-n|–name name] [-p|–prefix prefix] [-s|–set version] [-e|–edit] [-i|–increase knob] [-d|–display type] file DESCRIPTION This command displays and maintains version information in file. The version is always described with a triple <version,revision,level> and is represented by a string which always matches…

NAME shtool tarball – GNU shtool command for rolling standardized tarballs SYNOPSIS shtool tarball [-t|–trace] [-v|–verbose] [-o|–output tarball] [-c|–compress prog] [-d|–directory directory] [-u|–user user] [-g|–group group] [-e|–exclude pattern] path [path …] DESCRIPTION This command is for rolling input files under path into a distribution tarballs which can be extracted by tar(1). The four important aspects…

NAME shtool table – GNU shtool pretty-print a field-separated list SYNOPSIS shtool table [-F|–field-sep sep] [-w|–width width] [-c|–columns cols] [-s|–strip strip] strsepstr… DESCRIPTION This pretty-prints a list of strings as a table. OPTIONS The following command line options are available. -F, –field-sep sep Separate columns using sep. Default is ":". -w, –width width Width of…

NAME shtool subst – GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations SYNOPSIS shtool subst [-v|–verbose] [-t|–trace] [-n|–nop] [-w|–warning] [-q|–quiet] [-s|–stealth] [-i|–interactive] [-b|–backup ext] [-e|–exec cmd] [-f|–file cmd-file] [file] [file …] DESCRIPTION This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files. OPTIONS The following command line options are available. -v, –verbose…

NAME shtool slo – GNU shtool separate linker options by library class SYNOPSIS shtool slo [-p|–prefix str] — -Ldir -llib [-Ldir -llib …] DESCRIPTION This command separates the linker options “-L” and “-l” by library class. It’s argument line can actually be an arbitrary command line where those options are contained. slo parses these two…

NAME shtool scpp – GNU shtool C source file pre-processor SYNOPSIS shtool scpp [-v|–verbose] [-p|–preserve] [-f|–filter filter] [-o|–output ofile] [-t|–template tfile] [-M|–mark mark] [-D|–define dname] [-C|–class cname] file [file …] DESCRIPTION This command is an additional ANSI C source file pre-processor for sharing cpp(1) code segments, internal variables and internal functions. The intention for this…

NAME shtool rotate – GNU shtool log file rotation SYNOPSIS shtool rotate [-v|–verbose] [-t|–trace] [-f|–force] [-n|–num-files count] [-s|–size size] [-c|–copy] [-r|–remove] [-a|–archive-dir dir] [-z|–compress [tool:]level] [-b|–background] [-d|–delay] [-p|–pad len] [-m|–mode mode] [-o|–owner owner] [-g|–group group] [-M|–migrate cmd] [-P|–prolog cmd] [-E|–epilog cmd] file [file …] DESCRIPTION This command rotates a logfile file by subsequently creating up…

NAME shtool prop – GNU shtool propeller processing indication SYNOPSIS shtool prop [-p|–prefix str] DESCRIPTION This command displays a processing indication though a running propeller. It is intended to be run at the end of a pipe (""|"") sequence where on "stdin" logging/processing informations found. For every line on "stdin" the propeller advances one step…

NAME shtool platform – GNU shtool Unix platform identification SYNOPSIS shtool platform [-F|–format format] [-S|–sep string] [-C|–conc string] [-L|–lower] [-U|–upper] [-v|–verbose] [-c|–concise] [-n|–newline] [-d|–debug] [-t|–type type] [-n|–newline] [-d|–debug] DESCRIPTION shtool platform is a flexible Unix platform identification program. It distinguishes a platform according to its hardware architecture and operating system. For both there is a…

NAME shtool path – GNU shtool command dealing with shell path variables SYNOPSIS shtool path [-s|–suppress] [-r|–reverse] [-d|–dirname] [-b|–basename] [-m|–magic] [-p|–path path] str [str …] DESCRIPTION This command deals with shell $PATH variables. It can find a program through one or more filenames given by one or more str arguments. It prints the absolute filesystem…

NAME shtool move – GNU shtool enhanced mv(1) replacement SYNOPSIS shtool move [-v|–verbose] [-t|–trace] [-e|–expand] [-p|–preserve] src-file dst-file DESCRIPTION This is a mv(1) style command enhanced with the ability to rename multiple files in a single operation and the ability to detect and not touch existing equal destinations files, thus preserving timestamps. OPTIONS The following…

NAME shtool mkshadow – GNU shtool create shadow tree using symlinks SYNOPSIS shtool mkshadow [-v|–verbose] [-t|–trace] [-a|–all] src-dir dst-dir DESCRIPTION This command creates a shadow tree of src-dir under dst-dir by recreating the directory hierarchy of src-dir under dst-dir and by creating the files of src-dir by linking them into the corresponding directories under dst-dir…