Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME shtool mkln – GNU shtool enhanced ln(1) replacement SYNOPSIS shtool mkln [-t|–trace] [-f|–force] [-s|–symbolic] src-path [src-path …] dst-path DESCRIPTION This is a ln(1) style command. It is enhanced to provide automatic calculation and usage of relative links with the shortest possible path, if possible. Usually if src-path and dst-path are not absolute paths or…
NAME shtool mkdir – GNU shtool mkdir(1) style command SYNOPSIS shtool mkdir [-t|–trace] [-f|–force] [-p|–parents] [-m|–mode mode] [-o|–owner owner] [-g|–group group] dir [dir …] DESCRIPTION This is a mkdir(1) style command with additional options and the ability to be smart if the directory already exists which is important for installation procedures. OPTIONS The following command…
NAME shtool mdate – GNU shtool pretty-print last modification time SYNOPSIS shtool mdate [-n|–newline] [-z|–zero] [-s|–shorten] [-d|–digits] [-f|–field-sep str] [-o|–order spec] path DESCRIPTION This command pretty-prints the last modification time of a given file or directory path, while still allowing one to specify the format of the date to display. OPTIONS The following command line…
NAME shtool fixperm – GNU shtool file permission fixing command SYNOPSIS shtool fixperm [-v|–verbose] [-t|–trace] path [path …] DESCRIPTION shtool fixperm fixes file permissions inside a source tree under path by cleaning up the permission bits. It determines the cleaned up permission from the already set bits. It is intended to be run before a…
NAME shtool echo – GNU shtool echo(1) extensional command SYNOPSIS shtool echo [-n|–newline] [-e|–expand] string DESCRIPTION shtool echo is an echo(1) style command which prints string to stdout and optionally provides special expansion constructs (terminal bold mode, environment details, date, etc) and newline control. The trick of this command is that it provides a portable…
NAME shtool arx – GNU shtool ar(1) extensional command SYNOPSIS shtool arx [-t|–trace] [-C|–command cmd] op archive file [file …] DESCRIPTION shtool arx is a wrapper around the archiving tool ar(1). It provides the ability to create archives out of existing archives, i.e., if one of file matches ""*.a"", the archive member files of file…
NAME shrinkfile – shrink a file on a line boundary SYNOPSIS shrinkfile [ -n ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -s size ] [ -v ] file… DESCRIPTION The shrinkfile program shrinks files to a given size if the size is larger than maxsize, preserving the data at the end of the file. Truncation is…
NAME shred – overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it SYNOPSIS shred [,OPTION/]… ,FILE/… DESCRIPTION Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data. If FILE is -, shred standard output. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for…
NAME showriff – show structure of RIFF files (wav, avi, …) SYNOPSIS showriff [ options ] filename DESCRIPTION showriff displays the structure of RIFF files. Common media files which use the RIFF format are wave-files and avi-movies. OPTIONS -h display help text -j try to decode mjpeg headers -e try to continue on errors. SEE…
NAME showrgb – display an rgb color-name database SYNOPSIS showrgb [ database ] DESCRIPTION The showrgb program reads an rgb color-name database from a text file and converts it back to source form, printing the result to standard output. The default database is the one that X was built with, and may be overridden on…
NAME showkey – examine the codes sent by the keyboard SYNOPSIS showkey [-h|–help] [-a|–ascii] [-s|–scancodes] [-k|–keycodes] [-V|–version] DESCRIPTION showkey prints to standard output either the scan codes or the keycode or the `ascii’ code of each key pressed. In the first two modes the program runs until 10 seconds have elapsed since the last key…
NAME showfont – font dumper for X font server SYNOPSIS showfont [ -options … ] -fn pattern DESCRIPTION Showfont displays data about a font that matches the given pattern. The information shown includes font information, font properties, character metrics, and character bitmaps. The wildcard character "*" can be used to match any sequence of characters…
NAME showchar – show character with information SYNOPSIS showchar [ fontname ] [ charname ] DESCRIPTION This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. showchar outputs PostScript to draw a character with metric info. AUTHOR Copyright (C) Angus J. C. Duggan 1991-1995 This…
NAME show – show (display) messages SYNOPSIS show [+folder] [msgs] [-draft] [-showproc program] [-showmimeproc program] [-header | -noheader] [-checkmime | -nocheckmime] [switches for showproc or showmimeproc] [-version] [-help] DESCRIPTION Show lists each of the specified messages to the standard output (typically, the terminal). By default, text (non-MIME) messages are filtered and displayed by the nmh…
NAME show-installed – show installed RPM packages and descriptions SYNOPSIS show-installed [options] DESCRIPTION show-installed gives a compact description of the packages installed (or given) making use of the comps groups found in the repositories. OPTIONS -h, –help show this help message and exit -f FORMAT, –format=FORMAT yum, kickstart or human; yum gives the result as…
NAME show-changed-rco – show changes in an RPM package SYNOPSIS show-changed-rco [options] DESCRIPTION show-changed-rco gives a compact description of the changes to a packages Requires, Conflicts and Obsoletes data from the installed (or old) to a specified rpm file. OPTIONS -h, –help show this help message and exit -C, –cache Tells repoquery to run entirely…
NAME shotwell – Digital photo manager SYNOPSIS shotwell [OPTION]… [FILE] DESCRIPTION Shotwell is a digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from disk or camera, organize them in various ways, view them in full-window or fullscreen mode, and export them to share with others. OPTIONS -h, –help…
NAME shortrpm – Short-circuit binary RPM package build SYNOPSIS shortrpm [–bb ] [-–short-circuit ] [rpmbuild options ] DESCRIPTION shortrpm tricks rpmbuild(1) into thinking certain scriptlets in SPEC file are empty, effectively skipping their run and proceeding to build the binary package from files from previous %install scriptlet run in BuildRoot. The trickery only takes place…
NAME shorten – CLI program to demonstrate use of WWW::Shorten SYNOPSIS # Default shortening service is Metamark $ shorten books.perl.org/book/171 http://xrl.us/dv8 # Change with an environment variable $ SHORTEN_SERVICE=TinyURL shorten books.perl.org/book/171 http://tinyurl.com/ye7gjf4 # Change with command line option $ shorten –service=TinyURL books.perl.org/book/171 http://tinyurl.com/ye7gjf4 # Change using config file $ cat ~/.shortenrc service = TinyURL $…
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