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.
docbook2man-spec.pl – convert DocBook RefEntries to man pages Synopsissgmlspl docbook2man-spec.pl nsgmls [ sgml document ]| sgmlspl docbook2man-spec.pl Descriptiondocbook2man is a sgmlspl spec file that produced man pages (using the -man macros) from DocBook RefEntry markup. The program reads ESIS produced by nsgmls (or other SGML parsers) from standard input. Markup not found in RefEntry is…
docbook2man-spec.pl – convert DocBook RefEntries to man pages Synopsissgmlspl docbook2man-spec.pl nsgmls [ sgml document ]| sgmlspl docbook2man-spec.pl Descriptiondocbook2man is a sgmlspl spec file that produced man pages (using the -man macros) from DocBook RefEntry markup. The program reads ESIS produced by nsgmls (or other SGML parsers) from standard input. Markup not found in RefEntry is…
docbook2gjots – Convert a DOCBOOK file to gjots format (on stdout) Synopsisdocbook2gjots [ DOCBOOK-file ] Descriptiondocbook2gjots converts a DOCBOOK XML file into gjots format. docbook2gjots uses gawk(1) to perform the conversion. <preface>, <chapter>, <section>, <sect1>, <sect2>, <sect3> and <sect4> tags are used to define NewEntry and NewFolder boundaries. They should definitely have <title> tags. This…
unoconv – convert any document from and to any LibreOffice supported format Synopsisunoconv [options] file [file2 ..] unoconv –listener [–server SRV] [–port PRT] [–connection CON] Descriptionunoconv is a command line utility that can convert any file format that LibreOffice can import, to any file format that LibreOffice is capable of exporting. unoconv uses the LibreOffice’s…
unoconv – convert any document from and to any LibreOffice supported format Synopsisunoconv [options] file [file2 ..] unoconv –listener [–server SRV] [–port PRT] [–connection CON] Descriptionunoconv is a command line utility that can convert any file format that LibreOffice can import, to any file format that LibreOffice is capable of exporting. unoconv uses the LibreOffice’s…
dnswasher – A PowerDNS nameserver debugging tool Synopsisdnswasher [infile] [outfile] Descriptiondnswasher takes an infile in PCAP format and writtes out outfile also in PCAP format. It copies all network traffic found in infile to outfile except for non DNS traffic. This might be handy when creating bug reports or test cases for DNS software e.g….
Synopsisdnstxt [OPTIONS] <domain-name> [<domain-name> …] Descriptiondnstxt accepts a list of fully qualified domain names, queries and displays TXT records for each of them. Each record is displayed on a separate line. A TXT record is used to store any human readable text. Lately it has been known to store binary data such as Sender Policy…
Synopsisdnstrace [OPTIONS] <TYPE> <DOMAIN-NAME> <ROOT-IP> [<ROOT-IP> …] Descriptiondnstrace is a useful debugging tool to search for all DNS servers that can affect the resolution of records of given <TYPE> under the give <DOMAIN-NAME> starting from the root name server <ROOT-IP>. dnstrace uses the standard DNS resolution algorithm but follows all possible paths in the algorithm….
dnstcpbench – tool to perform TCP benchmarking of nameservers Synopsisdnstcpbench [–help] [–file=filename] [–verbose] [–udp-first, -u] [–workers] [–timeout-msec] remote-ip-address [remote-port] Descriptiondnstcpbench reads DNS queries (by default from standard input) and sends them out in parallel to a remote nameserver. By default TCP/IP is used, but optionally, UDP is tried first, which allows for the benchmarking of…
dnssort – sort DNS hostnames Synopsisdnssort [-r] [FILES] DescriptonWrite sorted concatenation of all specified files to standard output. If none are specified, the standard input is used. Options–help Display some help and exit. -r Reverse the sorting comparisons. –version Display program version and license and exit. See Alsosort(1) AuthorR33mi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab dot net>…
dnsscope – A PowerDNS nameserver debugging tool Synopsisdnsscope [infile] Descriptiondnsscope takes an infile in PCAP format. It generates some simple statistics outputs these to STDOUT. OptionsNone. See Alsopcap(3PCAP), tcpdump(8) AuthorsThis manpage was written by Joerg Jungermann (jj+debian At borkum.net) for the Debian Project and the PowerDNS versatile DNS server.
dnsreplay – A PowerDNS nameserver debugging tool Synopsisdnsreplay [options] filename ip-address [port] DescriptionThis program takes recorded questions and answers and replays them to a specified nameserver and reporting afterwards which percentage of answers matched, were worse or better. filename is expected to be an PCAP file. The queries are send to the DNS server specified…
Synopsisdnsqr [OPTIONS] <record-type> <domain-name> Descriptiondnsqr lets you query for specific type of records about a given domain name. dnsqr supports the following options: Options-h –help print this help -v –version print version information Record TypesA record-type could be any of the following types A Returns an IPv4 host address for the given domain name. ANY…
Synopsisdnsq [OPTIONS] <record-type> <domain-name> <name-server> Descriptiondnsq lets you query a DNS server for specific type of records about a given domain name. dnsq supports the following options: Options-h –help print this help -v –version print version information Record TypesA record-type could be any of the following types A Returns an IPv4 host address for the…
dnsperf – test the performance of a DNS server Synopsisdnsperf [-a local_addr] [-b bufsize] [-c clients] [-d datafile] [-D] [-e] [-f family] [-h] [-l limit] [-n runs_through_file] [-p port] [-q num_queries] [-Q max_qps] [-s server_addr] [-S stats_interval] [-t timeout] [-T threads] [-u] [-v] [-x local_port] [-y [alg:]name:secret] Descriptiondnsperf is a DNS server performance testing tool. It is primarily intended for measuring the performance of authoritative DNS servers, but it can also be…
Synopsisdnsname [OPTIONS] <address> [<address> …] Descriptiondnsname is a handy tool to resolve name of the DNS server. You can pass IP address of a DNS server and dnsname would resolve it for you. Options-h –help print this help -v –version print version information BugsReport bugs to <pj.pandit [at] yahoo.co.in> Manual AuthorPrasad J Pandit
Synopsisdnsipq [OPTIONS] <domain-name> [<domain-name> …] Descriptiondnsipq accepts a list of fully qualified domain names, resolves each of them and prints a record of the form: <domain-name> <ip-address> for each domain name. Options-h –help print this help -v –version print version information BugsReport bugs to <pj.pandit [at] yahoo.co.in> Manual AuthorPrasad J Pandit
Synopsisdnsip [OPTIONS] <domain-name> [<domain-name> …] Descriptiondnsip serves the sole task of resolving a given domain-name to it’s IPv4 address. dnsip supports following options: Options-h –help print this help -n –new use new output style -v –version print version information BugsReport bugs to <pj.pandit [at] yahoo.co.in> Manual AuthorPrasad J Pandit
dnsget – DNS lookup utility Synopsysdnsget [-v|-q] [-c class] [-t type] [-o opt,opt,…] name… Descriptiondnsget is a simple command-line to perform DNS lookups, similar to host(1) and dig(1). It is useable for both interactive/debugging scenarious and in scripts. The program is implemented using udns(3) library. By default, dnsget produces a human-readable output, similar to alias.example.com….
Synopsisdnsfilter [OPTIONS] Descriptiondnsfilter does the opposite of dnsip. It inverse queries the DNS to convert a given IP address to the corresponding host name. When a query returns the host name, dnsfilter prints the result as <ip-address>=<host-name> and in case of any error it goes like <ip-address>:<error-message> Options-c <number> do <number> queries in parallel -h –help print…