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.
mkvpropedit – Modify properties of existing Matroska(TM) files without a complete remux Synopsis mkvpropedit [options] {source-filename} {actions}DescriptionThis program analyses an existing Matroska(TM) file and modifies some of its properties. Then it writes those modifications to the existing file. Among the properties that can be changed are the segment information elements (e.g. the title) and the…
mkvmerge – Merge multimedia streams into a Matroska(TM) file Synopsis mkvmerge [global options] {-o out} [options1] {file1} [[options2] {file2}] [@optionsfile]DescriptionThis program takes the input from several media files and joins their streams (all of them or just a selection) into a Matroska(TM) file; see m[blue]the Matroska(TM) websitem[][1]. Important The order of command line options is important….
mkvinfo – Print information about elements in Matroska(TM) files Synopsis mkvinfo [options] {source-filename}DescriptionThis program lists all elements contained in a Matroska(TM). The output can be limited to a list of tracks in the file including information about the codecs used. -g, –gui Start the GUI. This option is only available if mkvinfo was compiled with…
mkvextract – extract tracks from Matroska(TM) files into other files Synopsis mkvextract {mode} {source-filename} [options] [extraction-spec]DescriptionThis program extracts specific parts from a Matroska(TM) file to other useful formats. The first argument, mode, tells mkvextract(1) what to extract. Currently supported is the extraction of tracks, tags, attachments, chapters, CUE sheets and timecodes. The second argument is…
mktextfm – create a TFM file for a font Synopsismktextfm [options] font Descriptionmktextfm is used to generate a tfm file from the Metafont source files for font, or hbf2gf(1), if possible. If destdir is given, the generated file will be installed there, otherwise a (rather complicated) heuristic is used. If the tfm file already exists…
mktexpk – create a PK file for a font Synopsismktexpk [options] font [redirect] DescriptionThis manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Kpathsea: A library for path searching. mktexpk is used to generate a pk file from the…
mktexmf – create a Metafont source file Synopsismktexmf font DescriptionThis manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Kpathsea: A library for path searching. mktexmf is used to generate the Metafont source file for font, if possible. For…
mktexlsr – create ls-R databases Synopsismktexlsr [directories] DescriptionThis manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Kpathsea: A library for path searching. mktexlsr is used to generate the ls-R databases used by the kpathsea library. It will create…
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 Synopsisfmtutil [,-user|-sys/] [,OPTION/] … [,COMMAND/] fmtutil-sys [,OPTION/] … [,COMMAND/] fmtutil-user [,OPTION/] … [,COMMAND/] mktexfmt ,FORMAT.fmt|BASE.base|FMTNAME/ Descriptionfmtutil version r59143 (2021-05-09 04:23:44 +0200) Rebuild and manage TeX fmts and Metafont…
mktemp – create a temporary file or directory Synopsismktemp [,OPTION/]… [,TEMPLATE/] DescriptionCreate 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 umask restrictions. -d,…
mktap – create twisted.servers Synopsismktap [options] apptype [application_option]… mktap apptype –help DescriptionThe –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 with ‘e’). –uid,…
mksquashfs – tool to create and append to squashfs filesystems Synopsismksquashfs SOURCE [SOURCE2 …] DESTINATION [OPTIONS] DescriptionSquashfs 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. Block sizes greater…
mksh sh – MirBSD Korn shell Synopsis-words [-+abCefhiklmnprUuvXx [-T /dev/ttyCn | – ] ] [-+o option ] [-c string | –s | file [argument … ] ] builtin-name [argument … ] Descriptionis a command interpreter intended for both interactive and shell script use. Its command language is a superset of the shC shell language and…
mkrfc2734 – Make Linux 2.4 IP over IEEE 1394 capable. Synopsismkrfc2734 Descriptionmkrfc2734 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 is a kernel…
mkpasswd – Overfeatured front end to crypt(3) Synopsismkpasswd PASSWORD [SALT] Descriptionmkpasswd 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 rounds. This argument is…
mkofm – front end to mktextfm(1) Synopsismkofm ARGS Descriptionmkofm takes all ARGS and passes them to mktextfm(1). For more information about appropriate arguments, see mktextfm(1). See Alsomktextfm(1) BugsNone known. AuthorAuthor unknown. This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <cmc [at] debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may be used by other distributions without…
mkoctfile – Compile dynamic-load modules for GNU Octave Synopsismkoctfile [OPTION]… file… Descriptionmkoctfile 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 include search path after…
mkocp – frontend to otp2ocp(1) Synopsismkocp OTPFILE Descriptionmkocp 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 used to change…
mknod – make block or character special files Synopsismknod [,OPTION/]… ,NAME TYPE /[,MAJOR MINOR/] DescriptionCreate 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 to default type…
mknmz – an indexer of Namazu Synopsismknmz [options] <target>… Descriptionmknmz 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 of target files. –allow=PATTERN…