Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME pbmmake – create a blank bitmap of a specified size SYNOPSIS pbmmake [-white|-black|-gray ] width height DESCRIPTION Produces a portable bitmap of the specified width and height. The color defaults to white. OPTIONS In addition to the usual -white and -black, this program implements -gray. This gives a simple 50% gray pattern with 1’s…
NAME pbmlife – apply Conway’s rules of Life to a portable bitmap SYNOPSIS pbmlife [pbmfile] DESCRIPTION Reads a portable bitmap as input. Applies the rules of Life to it for one generation, and produces a portable bitmap as output. A white pixel in the image is interpreted as a live beastie, and a black pixel…
NAME pbmfilters – list of all programs in the netpbm package DESCRIPTION 411toppm convert Sony Mavica .411 image to ppm anytopnm attempt to convert an unknown type of image file to a portable anymap asciitopgm convert ASCII graphics into a portable graymap atktopbm convert Andrew Toolkit raster object to portable bitmap bioradtopgm convert a Biorad…
NAME pbmclean – flip isolated pixels in portable bitmap SYNOPSIS pbmclean [-minneighbors=N] [-black|-white] [pbmfile] You can use the minimum unique abbreviation of the options. You can use two hyphens instead of one. You can separate an option name from its value with white space instead of an equals sign. Before December 2001, pbmclean accepted –N…
NAME pbm2ppa – convert portable bitmap (PBM) to HP’s Printing Performance Architecture (PPA) file format SYNOPSIS pbm2ppa [options] [ <infile] > [ <outfile]> ] ] DESCRIPTION Reads portable bitmap (PBM) format as input. Outputs a stream suitable for processing by Hewlett-Packard’s range of Printing Performance Architecture (PPA) printers. pnm2ppa supports the HP 710c, 712c, 720c,…
NAME pbm2g3 – convert portable bitmaps (PBM) into G3 fax files SYNOPSIS pbm2g3 [-r] [-w<pagewidth>] [-h<blanklines>] [-d] [-a] [pbmfile] DESCRIPTION Reads a portable bitmap as input, converting it into a G3 fax file on stdout. That file is suitable for faxing it with sendfax(8) or queueing it for faxing with faxspool(1) (provided that it gets…
NAME pbind – recombine output files generated by AS SYNTAX pbind [ option(s) ] <name(s)> [ further options/names ] DESCRIPTION BIND is a tool to combine code files generated by the AS cross assembler to a single file or to extract records out of a code file. pbind is the Unix/C implementation of BIND. BIND…
NAME pax11publish – PulseAudio X11 Credential Utility SYNOPSIS pax11publish -h pax11publish [options] [-d] pax11publish [options] -e pax11publish [options] -i pax11publish [options] -r DESCRIPTION The pax11publish utility can be used to dump or manipulate the PulseAudio server credentials that can be stored as properties on the X11 root window. Please note that the loadable module module-x11-publish…
NAME pawd – print automounter working directory SYNOPSIS pawd [ path … ] DESCRIPTION pawd is used to print the current working directory, adjusted to reflect proper paths that can be reused to go through the automounter for the shortest possible path. In particular, the path printed back does not include any of Amd‘s local…
NAME pavucontrol – A volume control for the PulseAudio sound server SYNOPSIS pavucontrol DESCRIPTION A simple volume control tool (mixer) for the PulseAudio sound server. In contrast to classic mixer tools this one allows you to control both the volume of hardware devices and of each playback stream separately. It also allows you to redirect…
NAME pathchk – check whether file names are valid or portable SYNOPSIS pathchk [,OPTION/]… ,NAME/… DESCRIPTION Diagnose invalid or unportable file names. -p check for most POSIX systems -P check for empty names and leading "-" –portability check for all POSIX systems (equivalent to -p -P) –help display this help and exit –version output version…
NAME patgen – generate patterns for TeX hyphenation SYNOPSIS patgen dictionary_file pattern_file patout_file translate_file DESCRIPTION This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. See also the Info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation available as part of the TeX Live distribution or at http://tug.org/web2c. The patgen program reads the dictionary_file containing a list…
NAME patchwork – filter for drawing clustered graphs as treemaps SYNOPSIS patchwork [–(G|N|E)name=value] [-Tlang] [-llibfile] [-ooutfile] [-O] [-P] [-v] [-V] [files] DESCRIPTION patchwork draws clustered graphs using a squarified treemap layout. As input, it takes any graph in the dot format. Each cluster is given an area based on the areas specified by the clusters…
NAME patchelf – Modify ELF files SYNOPSIS patchelf OPTION FILE DESCRIPTION PatchELF is a simple utility for modifying existing ELF executables and libraries. It can change the dynamic loader ("ELF interpreter") of executables and change the RPATH of executables and libraries. OPTIONS The single option given operates on a given FILE, editing in place. –set-interpreter…
NAME patch – apply a diff file to an original SYNOPSIS patch [options] [originalfile [patchfile]] but usually just patch -pnum <patchfile DESCRIPTION patch takes a patch file patchfile containing a difference listing produced by the diff program and applies those differences to one or more original files, producing patched versions. Normally the patched versions are…
NAME patcat – combine two GUS patches into one stereo extended GUS patch SYNOPSIS patcat left.pat right.pat DESCRIPTION Patcat combines two ordinary monophonic GUS patches to make an extended GUS patch that has two channels. The left channel is from the first of the two patch files that were combined, and the right channel is…
NAME pasuspender – Temporarily suspend PulseAudio SYNOPSIS pasuspender [options] — PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS …] pasuspender –help pasuspender –version DESCRIPTION pasuspender is a tool that can be used to tell a local PulseAudio sound server to temporarily suspend access to the audio devices, to allow other applications access them directly. pasuspender will suspend access to the audio…
NAME paste – merge lines of files SYNOPSIS paste [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/]… DESCRIPTION Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -d, –delimiters=,LIST/ reuse characters…
NAME passwd – change user password SYNOPSIS passwd [options] [LOGIN] DESCRIPTION The passwd command changes passwords for user accounts. A normal user may only change the password for their own account, while the superuser may change the password for any account. passwd also changes the account or associated password validity period. Password Changes The user…
NAME passmass – change password on multiple machines SYNOPSIS passmass [ host1 host2 host3 … ] INTRODUCTION Passmass changes a password on multiple machines. If you have accounts on several machines that do not share password databases, Passmass can help you keep them all in sync. This, in turn, will make it easier to change…