Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME fmtutil – manage TeX formats and Metafont bases, per-user fmtutil-sys – manage TeX formats and Metafont bases, system-wide mktexfmt – create a TeX format or Metafont base SYNOPSIS fmtutil [,-user|-sys/] [,OPTION/] … [,COMMAND/] fmtutil-sys [,OPTION/] … [,COMMAND/] fmtutil-user [,OPTION/] … [,COMMAND/] mktexfmt ,FORMAT.fmt|BASE.base|FMTNAME/ DESCRIPTION fmtutil version r59143 (2021-05-09 04:23:44 +0200) Rebuild and manage TeX…
NAME mktemp – create a temporary file or directory SYNOPSIS mktemp [,OPTION/]… [,TEMPLATE/] DESCRIPTION Create a temporary file or directory, safely, and print its name. TEMPLATE must contain at least 3 consecutive ‘X’s in last component. If TEMPLATE is not specified, use tmp.XXXXXXXXXX, and –tmpdir is implied. Files are created u+rw, and directories u+rwx, minus…
NAME mktap – create twisted.servers SYNOPSIS mktap [options] apptype [application_option]… mktap apptype –help DESCRIPTION The –help prints out a usage message to standard output. –debug, -d Show debug information for plugin loading. –progress, -p Show progress information for plugin loading. –encrypted, -e Encrypt file before writing (will make the extension of the resultant file begin…
NAME mksquashfs – tool to create and append to squashfs filesystems SYNOPSIS mksquashfs SOURCE [SOURCE2 …] DESTINATION [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. It uses zlib compression to compress both files, inodes and directories. Inodes in the system are very small and all blocks are packed to minimize data overhead….
NAME mksh sh – MirBSD Korn shell SYNOPSIS -words [-+abCefhiklmnprUuvXx [-T /dev/ttyCn | – ] ] [-+o option ] [-c string | –s | file [argument … ] ] builtin-name [argument … ] DESCRIPTION is a command interpreter intended for both interactive and shell script use. Its command language is a superset of the shC…
NAME mkrfc2734 – Make Linux 2.4 IP over IEEE 1394 capable. SYNOPSIS mkrfc2734 DESCRIPTION mkrfc2734 adds entries to the Linux IEEE 1394 Configuration ROM to describe itself to other nodes on the bus as being capable of performing IP over IEEE 1394 (RFC 2734) duties. This utility is not necessary for Linux 2.6 as there…
NAME mkpasswd – Overfeatured front end to crypt(3) SYNOPSIS mkpasswd PASSWORD [SALT] DESCRIPTION mkpasswd encrypts the given password with the crypt(3) libc function, using the given salt. OPTIONS -S, –salt=STRING Use the STRING as salt. If it begins with $ then it will be passed straight to crypt(3) without any checks. -R, –rounds=NUMBER Use NUMBER…
NAME mkofm – front end to mktextfm(1) SYNOPSIS mkofm ARGS DESCRIPTION mkofm takes all ARGS and passes them to mktextfm(1). For more information about appropriate arguments, see mktextfm(1). SEE ALSO mktextfm(1) BUGS None known. AUTHOR Author unknown. This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <cmc [at] debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may…
NAME mkoctfile – Compile dynamic-load modules for GNU Octave SYNOPSIS mkoctfile [OPTION]… file… DESCRIPTION mkoctfile is used to compile C, C++, or Fortran source code in to a dynamically loadable .oct file for octave(1). OPTIONS -h, -?, –help Print help message. -Idir Add include directory dir to compile commands. -idirafterdir Add include directory to second…
NAME mkocp – frontend to otp2ocp(1) SYNOPSIS mkocp OTPFILE DESCRIPTION mkocp is used to create or recreate Omega Compiled Process files (binary) from Omega Translation Process (text) files. Omega Translation Processes are used to translate one character set to another and to choose between characters with one or more context-sensitive variants. OTPs could also be…
NAME mknod – make block or character special files SYNOPSIS mknod [,OPTION/]… ,NAME TYPE /[,MAJOR MINOR/] DESCRIPTION Create the special file NAME of the given TYPE. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -m, –mode=,MODE/ set file permission bits to MODE, not a=rw – umask -Z set the SELinux security context…
NAME mknmz – an indexer of Namazu SYNOPSIS mknmz [options] <target>… DESCRIPTION mknmz 2.0.19, an indexer of Namazu. Target files: -a, –all target all files. -t, –media-type=MTYPE set the media type for all target files to MTYPE. -h, –mailnews same as –media-type=‘message/rfc822’ –mhonarc same as –media-type=‘text/html; x-type=mhonarc’ -F, –target-list=FILE load FILE which contains a list…
NAME mkmupfnt – create fontfile for overriding Mup fonts SYNOPSIS mkmupfnt PostScript_font_name Mup_font_name outfile [file] DESCRIPTION The mkmupfnt program creates an outfile that can be used with the Mup "fontfile" statement to override a Mup font. The PostScript_font_name is the name of the font you want Mup to use. This would be something that could…
NAME mkmapfile – create Unicode mapfiles Very Alpha. SYNOPSIS Example: mkmapfile -M ./GB2312-80.map ~/Unicode/MAPPINGS/EASTASIA/GB/GB2312.TXT See "mkmapfile -h" for details. DESCRIPTION Creates the binary mapfiles that module Unicode::Map uses for converting from and to unicode character sets. SEE ALSO Unicode::Map AUTHOR Martin Schwartz <martin [at] nacho.de>. Index
Name mkmanifest – makes list of file names and their DOS 8+3 equivalent Note of warning This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools’s texinfo documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete. See the end of this man page for details. Description The mkmanifest command is used to create a shell script (packing…
NAME mkjobtexmf — Generate a texmf tree for a particular job VERSION 2011-11-10 v0.8 SYNOPSIS The progam mkjobtexmf runs a program and tries to find the used file names. Two methods are available, option "-recorder" of TeX (Web2C) or the program strace. Then it generates a directory with a texmf tree. It checks the found…
NAME genisoimage – create ISO9660/Joliet/HFS filesystem with optional Rock Ridge attributes SYNOPSIS genisoimage [options] [-o filename] pathspec [pathspec …] DESCRIPTION genisoimage is a pre-mastering program to generate ISO9660/Joliet/HFS hybrid filesystems. genisoimage is capable of generating the System Use Sharing Protocol records (SUSP) specified by the Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol. This is used to further describe…
NAME mkindex – script to process LaTeX index and glossary files SYNOPSIS mkindex BASENAME[.idx] … DESCRIPTION mkindex runs makeindex(1) on any index (.idx) or glossary (.glo) files created by TeXing the file BASENAME.tex. FILES gind.ist MakeIndex index style file gglo.ist MakeIndex glossary style file SEE ALSO makeindex(1) BUGS None known, but report any bugs found…
NAME mkimage – Generate image for U-Boot SYNOPSIS mkimage -l [uimage file name] mkimage [options] -f [image tree source file] [uimage file name] mkimage [options] -F [uimage file name] mkimage [options] (legacy mode) DESCRIPTION The mkimage command is used to create images for use with the U-Boot boot loader. These images can contain the linux…
NAME mkhtmlindex – generate index files for HTML man pages SYNOPSIS mkhtmlindex htmlmandir DESCRIPTION The mkhtmlindex program generates index files for a directory of HTML-formatted manual pages. It searches for files whose names are of the form “name.1.html”, and outputs index files “manindex1.html”, “manindex.2.html”, and so on, one for each manual volume. Empty index files…