The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
ci – check in RCS revisions Synopsisci [options] file … Descriptionci stores new revisions into RCS files. Each file name matching an RCS suffix is taken to be an RCS file. All others are assumed to be working files containing new revisions. ci deposits the contents of each working file into the corresponding RCS file….
chvt – change foreground virtual terminal Synopsischvt [,option/…] N DescriptionThe command chvt N makes /dev/ttyN the foreground terminal. (The corresponding screen is created if it did not exist yet. To get rid of unused VTs, use deallocvt(1).) The key combination (Ctrl-)LeftAlt-FN (with N in the range 1-12) usually has a similar effect. Options-V, –version print…
cht – chemtool drawings analyzer Synopsischt [options] filename.cht Descriptioncht is a commandline tool to derive the sum formula and molecular mass of the molecule depicted in a chemtool drawing file. It is also available from within chemtool to calculate these data for the current structure or a marked fragment of it. cht currently recognizes the…
chsh – change login shell Synopsis chsh [options] [LOGIN]DescriptionThe chsh command changes the user login shell. This determines the name of the user’s initial login command. A normal user may only change the login shell for her own account; the superuser may change the login shell for any account. OptionsThe options which apply to the…
chrt – manipulate the real-time attributes of a process Synopsischrt [options] priority command argument … chrt [options] -p [priority] PID Descriptionchrt sets or retrieves the real-time scheduling attributes of an existing PID, or runs command with the given attributes. Policies-o, –other Set scheduling policy to SCHED_OTHER (time-sharing scheduling). This is the default Linux scheduling policy….
chrpath – change the rpath or runpath in binaries Synopsischrpath [ -v | –version ] [ -d | –delete ] [ -r <path> | –replace <path> ] [ -c | –convert ] [ -l | –list ] [ -h | –help ] <program> [ <program> … ] Descriptionchrpath changes, lists or removes the rpath or…
chroot – run command or interactive shell with special root directory Synopsischroot [OPTION] NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]…] chroot OPTION DescriptionRun COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT. –userspec=USER:GROUP specify user and group (ID or name) to use –groups=G_LIST specify supplementary groups as g1,g2,..,gN –help display this help and exit –version output version information and exit If…
chronyc – command-line interface for chrony daemon Synopsischronyc [OPTION]… [COMMAND]… Descriptionchronyc is a command-line interface program which can be used to monitor chronyd‘s performance and to change various operating parameters whilst it is running. If no commands are specified on the command line, chronyc will expect input from the user. The prompt chronyc> will be…
chrony – programs for keeping computer clocks accurate Synopsischronyc [OPTIONS] chronyd [OPTIONS] Descriptionchrony is a pair of programs for keeping computer clocks accurate. chronyd is a background (daemon) program and chronyc is a command-line interface to it. Time reference sources for chronyd can be RFC1305 NTP servers, human (via keyboard and chronyc), or the computer’s…
chronic – runs a command quietly unless it fails Synopsischronic [-ev] COMMAND… Descriptionchronic runs a command, and arranges for its standard out and standard error to only be displayed if the command fails (exits nonzero or crashes). If the command succeeds, any extraneous output will be hidden. A common use for chronic is for running…
chromium-browser – the web browser from Google Synopsischromium-browser [OPTION] [PATH|URL] DescriptionSee the Google Chrome help center for help on using the browser. <https://support.google.com/chrome/> This manpage only describes invocation, environment, and arguments. OptionsChromium has hundreds of undocumented command-line flags that are added and removed at the whim of the developers. Here, we document relatively stable flags….
choom – display and adjust OOM-killer score. choom -p PID choom -p PID -n number choom -n number [–] command [argument …] DescriptionThe choom command displays and adjusts Out-Of-Memory killer score setting. Options-p, –pid pid Specifies process ID. -n, –adjust value Specify the adjust score value. -h, –help Display help text and exit. -V, –version…
chmoddic – change access rights for a directory Synopsischmoddic [{(-cs | – cannaserver} canna-server] {+ | -}{r|w|rw|wr} [-G] dicname DescriptionAdd and/or remove READ/WRITE rights for the dictionary dicname. The access rights for the dictionary cannot be changed if it is being used. Option-cs cannaserver (or -cannaserver canna-server) Specify the server machine which has a dictionary…
chkweb – runs the LaTeX parts of a CWEB file through chktex Synopsischkweb [-hiqrW] [-l <rcfile>] [-[wemn] <[1-42]|all>] [-d[0-…]] [-o <outfile>] [-[btxgI][0|1]] file1 file2 … Descriptionchkweb runs the LaTeX parts of a CWEB file through chktex. OptionsMiscellaneous options: -h –help Print a help screen. -i –license Show distribution information. -l –localrc Read local .chktexrc formatted…
chktrust – Check the trust of a PE executable. Synopsischktrust [options] filename DescriptionVerify if an PE executable (CLR assembly, Win32 EXE or DLL) has a valid Authenticode(r) signature that can be traced back to a trusted certificate authority (CA). This means that (a) the signature is valid (i.e. file integrity) and, (b) the code-signing certificate…
chktex – finds typographic errors in LaTeX. Synopsischktex [-hiqrW] [-v[0-…]] [-l <rcfile>] [-[wemn] <[1-42]|all>] [-d[0-…]] [-p <name>] [-o <outfile>] [-[btxgI][0|1]] file1 file2 … Descriptionchktex finds typographic errors in LaTeX OptionsMiscellaneous options: -h –help Print a help screen. -i –license Show distribution information. -l –localrc Read local .chktexrc formatted file. -d –debug Debug information. Give it…
chklref – manual page for chklref 3.1.2 Synopsischklref [,options/] ,texfile/ DescriptionCheck unused labels and bibitems in a LaTeX file Options–tex <compiler>, -t Specify the TeX compiler to be used. Default is `pdflatex`. –tex-options List of options to pass to the TeX compiler. It should be a quoted string of white space delimited options. Note that…
chkhelp – check performance metrics help text files Synopsis$PCP_BINADM_DIR/chkhelp [-eHiOp] [-n pmnsfile] [-v version] helpfile [metricname …] Descriptionchkhelp checks the consistency of Performance Co-Pilot help text files generated by newhelp(1) and used by Performance Metric Domain Agents (PMDAs). The checking involves scanning the files, and optionally displaying selected entries. The files helpfile.dir and helpfile.pag are…
chkdvifont – CHecK DVI/tfm/font file and tell informations of FONTs Synopsischkdvifont [-s] [-c] [-{f|F}<font_data_file>] [-d] dvi_file_name chkdvifont [-s] [-c] [-{f|F}<font_data_file>] [-t] tfm_file_name chkdvifont [-s] [-c] [-{f|F}<font_data_file>] [-p] font_file_name DescriptionChkdvifont is a utility to check DVI and other TeX font-related formats (such as TFM, VF, GF and PK) and print information of those fonts. There are…
chicken – A Scheme-to-C translator Synopsischicken PATHNAME [ OPTION … ] DescriptionCHICKEN is a compiler and interpreter for the programming language Scheme supporting most of the features as described in the Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme . The chicken program is the basic Scheme-to-C translator used in this system. For a more convenient…