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.
cpp – The C Preprocessor Synopsiscpp [-Dmacro[=defn]…] [-Umacro] [-Idir…] [-Wwarn…] [-M|-MM] [-MG] [-MF filename] [-MP] [-MQ target…] [-MT target…] [-x language] [-std=standard] infile outfile Only the most useful options are listed here; see below for the remainder. DescriptionThe C preprocessor, often known as cpp, is a macro processor that is used automatically by the C compiler to transform your program before compilation. It is called a…
c++filt – Demangle C++ and Java symbols. Synopsisc++filt [-_|–strip-underscores] [-n|–no-strip-underscores] [-p|–no-params] [-t|–types] [-i|–no-verbose] [-s format|–format=format] [–help] [–version] [symbol…] DescriptionThe C++ and Java languages provide function overloading, which means that you can write many functions with the same name, providing that each function takes parameters of different types. In order to be able to distinguish these similarly named functions…
AS – the portable GNU assembler. Synopsisas [-a[cdghlns][=file]] [–alternate] [-D] [–debug-prefix-map old=new] [–defsym sym=val] [-f] [-g] [–gstabs] [–gstabs+] [–gdwarf-2] [–help] [-I dir] [-J] [-K] [-L] [–listing-lhs-width=NUM] [–listing-lhs-width2=NUM] [–listing-rhs-width=NUM] [–listing-cont-lines=NUM] [–keep-locals] [-o objfile] [-R] [–reduce-memory-overheads] [–statistics] [-v] [-version] [–version] [-W] [–warn] [–fatal-warnings] [-w] [-x] [-Z] [@FILE] [–target-help] [target-options] [—|files …] Target Alpha options: [-mcpu] [-mdebug | -no-mdebug] [-relax] [-g] [-Gsize] [-F] [-32addr] Target ARC options: [-marc[5|6|7|8]] [-EB|-EL] Target ARM options: [-mcpu=processor[+extension…]] [-march=architecture[+extension…]] [-mfpu=floating-point-format] [-mfloat-abi=abi] [-meabi=ver] [-mthumb] [-EB|-EL] [-mapcs-32|-mapcs-26|-mapcs-float| -mapcs-reentrant] [-mthumb-interwork] [-k] Target CRIS options: [–underscore | –no-underscore] [–pic] [-N] [–emulation=criself | –emulation=crisaout] [–march=v0_v10 | –march=v10 | –march=v32 | –march=common_v10_v32] Target D10V…
ar – create, modify, and extract from archives Synopsisar [-X32_64] [–]p[mod [relpos] [count]] archive [member…] DescriptionThe GNU ar program creates, modifies, and extracts from archives. An archive is a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes it possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of the archive)….
addr2line – convert addresses into file names and line numbers. Synopsisaddr2line [-b bfdname|–target=bfdname] [-C|–demangle[=style]] [-e filename|–exe=filename] [-f|–functions] [-s|–basename] [-i|–inlines] [-j|–section=name] [-H|–help] [-V|–version] [addr addr …] Descriptionaddr2line translates addresses into file names and line numbers. Given an address in an executable or an offset in a section of a relocatable object, it uses the debugging information to figure out…
msort – sort records in complex ways Synopsismsort <options> [<input file>] Descriptionmsort is a program for sorting text files in sophisticated ways. It was developed initially for alphabetizing dictionaries of languages in which the ordering may be quite different from English but has many other uses. msort allows you to sort blocks of text delimited…
msmtp – An SMTP client SynopsisSendmail mode (default): msmtp [option…] [–] recipient… msmtp [option…] -t [–] [recipient…] Server information mode: msmtp [option…] –serverinfo Remote Message Queue Starting mode: msmtp [option…] –rmqs=host|@domain|#queueDescriptionIn the default sendmail mode, msmtp reads a mail from standard input and sends it to an SMTP server for delivery. In server information mode,…
msktutil – fetches and manages kerberos keytabs in an Active Directory environment Synopsismsktutil [command 1] [command 2] [command 3] … Descriptionmsktutil is a Unix/Linux keytab client for Microsoft Active Directory environments. This program is capable of creating accounts in Active Directory, adding service principals to those accounts, and creating local keytab files so that kerberizied…
msiexec – Wine MSI Installer Synopsismsiexec command {required parameter} [optional parameter]… Descriptionmsiexec is the Wine MSI installer, which is command line compatible with its Microsoft Windows counterpart. Install Options/i {package|productcode} [property=foobar] Install {package|productcode} with property=foobar. /a {package|productcode} [property=foobar] Install {package|productcode} in administrator (network) mode. /x {package|productcode} [property=foobar] Uninstall {package|productcode} with property=foobar. /uninstall {package|productcode} [property=foobar] Same as /x.Repair Options/f [p|o|e|d|c|a|u|m|s|v] {package|productcode} Repair an installation. Default options…
msiexec – Wine MSI Installer Synopsismsiexec command {required parameter} [optional parameter]… Descriptionmsiexec is the Wine MSI installer, which is command line compatible with its Microsoft Windows counterpart. Install Options/i {package|productcode} [property=foobar] Install {package|productcode} with property=foobar. /a {package|productcode} [property=foobar] Install {package|productcode} in administrator (network) mode. /x {package|productcode} [property=foobar] Uninstall {package|productcode} with property=foobar. /uninstall {package|productcode} [property=foobar] Same as /x.Repair Options/f [p|o|e|d|c|a|u|m|s|v] {package|productcode} Repair an installation. Default options…
mshowfat – shows FAT clusters allocated to file Note of warningThis 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. DescriptionThe mshowfat command is used to display the FAT entries for a file. Syntax: mshowfat [-o offset] files …
mshortname – shows short name of a file Note of warningThis 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. DescriptionThe mshortname command is used to display the short name of a file. Syntax: mshortname files The shortname…
msh – nmh shell (and BBoard reader) Synopsis msh [-prompt string] [-scan | -noscan] [-topcur | -notopcur] [file] [-version] [-help]Statusmsh is deprecated and will be removed from the next nmh release. Descriptionmsh is an interactive program that implements a subset of the normal nmh commands operating on a single file in mmdf format. That is,…
msguntypot – update po files when a typo is fixed in pot file Synopsismsguntypot -o <old_pot> -n <new_pot> pofiles… DescriptionWhen you fix a trivial error which surely doesn’t affect translations (e.g. a typo) in a .pot file, you should unfuzzy the corresponding msgstr in the translated .po files to avoid so extra work to the…
msguniq – unify duplicate translations in message catalog Synopsismsguniq [OPTION] [INPUTFILE] DescriptionUnifies duplicate translations in a translation catalog. Finds duplicate translations of the same message ID. Such duplicates are invalid input for other programs like msgfmt, msgmerge or msgcat. By default, duplicates are merged together. When using the –repeated option, only duplicates are output, and…
msgunfmt – uncompile message catalog from binary format Synopsismsgunfmt [OPTION] [FILE]… DescriptionConvert binary message catalog to Uniforum style .po file. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Operation mode:-j, –java Java mode: input is a Java ResourceBundle class –csharp C# mode: input is a .NET .dll file –csharp-resources C# resources mode:…
msgmerge – merge message catalog and template Synopsismsgmerge [OPTION] def.po ref.pot DescriptionMerges two Uniforum style .po files together. The def.po file is an existing PO file with translations which will be taken over to the newly created file as long as they still match; comments will be preserved, but extracted comments and file positions will…
msginit – initialize a message catalog Synopsismsginit [OPTION] DescriptionCreates a new PO file, initializing the meta information with values from the user’s environment. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Input file location:-i, –input=INPUTFILE input POT file If no input file is given, the current directory is searched for the POT…
msghack – alter PO files in ways Synopsismsghack [OPTION] file.po [ref.po] DescriptionThis program can be used to alter .po files in ways no sane mind would think about. -o result will be written to FILE –invert invert a po file by switching msgid and msgstr –master join any number of files in a master-formatted catalog…
msggrep – pattern matching on message catalog Synopsismsggrep [OPTION] [INPUTFILE] DescriptionExtracts all messages of a translation catalog that match a given pattern or belong to some given source files. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Input file location:INPUTFILE input PO file -D, –directory=DIRECTORY add DIRECTORY to list for input files…