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.
linux-check-removal – check whether removal of a kernel is safe Synopsis linux-check-removal VERSIONDescriptionlinux-check-removal is intended to be called from the prerm maintainer scripts of Linux kernel packages. The VERSION argument must be the kernel version string as shown by uname -r and used in filenames. If the currently running kernel matches VERSION, linux-check-removal normally prompts the…
linux-boot-prober — Determine boot characteristics of a specified device. Synopsislinux-boot-prober <partition> DescriptionThe linux-boot-prober utility will try to work out how to boot the linux root partition specified by <partition>. If successful, it will outoput one or more lines of the form: <root partition>:<boot partition>:<label>:<kernel path>:<initrd path>:<kernel parameters> For example, for a system with a kernel…
lintian – Static analysis tool for Debian packages Synopsislintian [action] [options] [packages] … DescriptionLintian dissects Debian packages and reports bugs and policy violations. It contains automated checks for many aspects of Debian policy as well as some checks for common errors. There are two ways to specify binary, udeb or source packages for Lintian to…
lintian-lab-tool – perform common operations on/involving laboratories Synopsislintian-lab-tool <cmd> <lab> […] lintian-lab-tool help DescriptionThe lintian-lab-tool … Operationscreate-lab laboratory-dir Creates a new permanent Lintian laboratory in the directory denoted by laboratory-dir. help [cmd] Display the synopsis of this tool or one of its operations. remove-lab laboratory-dir Removes a permanent Lintian laboratory in the directory denoted by…
lintian-info – give detailed information about Lintian’s error tags Synopsislintian-info [log-file…] lintian-info –tags tag … DescriptionThe lintian-info command parses the output of the lintian command and gives verbose information about the listed Lintian error tags, parses a Lintian override file and gives verbose information about the tags included, or (if given the -t or –tags…
links – lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser Synopsislinks [options] URL Descriptionlinks is a text mode WWW browser with ncurses interface, supporting colors, correct table rendering, background downloading, menu driven configuration interface and slim code. Frames are supported. You can have different file formats associated with external viewers. mailto: and telnet: are supported via external…
linkicc – little cms device link generator. Synopsislinkicc [options] <profiles> Descriptionlcms is a standalone CMM engine, which deals with the color management. It implements a fast transformation between ICC profiles. linkicc is little cms device link generator. Links two or more profiles into a single devicelink profile. Colorspaces must be paired except Lab/XYZ, that can…
linkchecker – command line client to check HTML documents and websites for broken links Synopsislinkchecker [options] [file-or-url]… DescriptionLinkChecker features • recursive and multithreaded checking, • output in colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, XML or a sitemap graph in different formats, • support for HTTP/1.1, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Telnet and local file…
link – call the link function to create a link to a file Synopsislink ,FILE1 FILE2/ link ,OPTION/ DescriptionCall the link function to create a link named FILE2 to an existing FILE1. –help display this help and exit –version output version information and exitAuthorWritten by Michael Stone. Reporting BugsGNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report any…
link-parser – parses natural language sentences Synopsislink-parser [language] [-pp pp_knowledge_file] [-c constituent_knowledge_file] [-a affix_file] [-ppoff] [-coff] [-aoff] [-batch] [-<special "!" command>] DescriptionIn Selator, D. and Temperly, D. "Parsing English with a Link Grammar" (1991), the authors defined a new formal grammatical system called a "link grammar". A sequence of words is in the language of…
linefind – Detect vertical features in images Synopsislinefind [options] -o output.pto input.pto Descriptionlinefind is a detector for vertical features in images. It tries to find vertical lines using the same algorithm as Calibrate_lens_gui and assigns vertical control points to them. The detection runs on the source images, if the input images are rectilinear images. In…
lilysong – manual page for lilysong 2.12.2 Synopsislilysong [-p PLAY-PROGRAM] FILE.xml [LANGUAGE-CODE-OR-VOICE [SPEEDUP]] lilysong FILE.ly [LANGUAGE-CODE-OR-VOICE] lilysong –list-voices lilysong –list-languages Options–version show program’s version number and exit -h, –help show this help message and exit –list-voices list available Festival voices –list-languages list available Festival languages -p PROGRAM, –play-program=PROGRAM use PROGRAM to play song immediatelySee AlsoThe…
LilyPond – manual page for LilyPond 2.12.2 Synopsislilypond [OPTION]… FILE… DescriptionTypeset music and/or produce MIDI from FILE. LilyPond produces beautiful music notation. For more information, see http://lilypond.org Options-d, –define-default=SYM[=VAL] set Scheme option SYM to VAL (default: #t). Use -dhelp for help. -e, –evaluate=EXPR evaluate scheme code -f, –formats=FORMATs dump FORMAT,… Also as separate options: –pdf…
lilypond-invoke-editor – manual page for lilypond-invoke-editor 2.12.2 Synopsislilypond-invoke-editor [textedit://]FILE:LINE:CHAR:COLUMN Descriptionlilypond-invoke-editor (GNU LilyPond) 2.12.2 Visit a file and position the cursor. Options-h, –help show this help -v, –version show versionSee AlsoThe full documentation for lilypond-invoke-editor is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and lilypond-invoke-editor programs are properly installed at your site, the command info…
lilypond-book – manual page for lilypond-book 2.12.2 Synopsislilypond-book [OPTION]… FILE DescriptionProcess LilyPond snippets in hybrid HTML, LaTeX, texinfo or DocBook document. Options-F, –filter=FILTER pipe snippets through FILTER [default: `convert-ly -n -‘] -f, –format=FORMAT use output format FORMAT (texi [default], texi-html, latex, html, docbook) -h, –help show this help and exit -I, –include=DIR add DIR to…
lilymidi – manual page for lilymidi 2.12.2 Synopsislilymidi [options] FILE Options–version show program’s version number and exit -h, –help show this help message and exit –filter-tracks=REGEXP display only tracks numbers, of those track names matching REGEXP –prefix-tracks=PREFIX prefix filtered track numbers with PREFIX –dump just dump parsed contents of the MIDI fileSee AlsoThe full documentation…
lightdm – a display manager Synopsislightdm [ OPTION ] Descriptionlightdm is a display manager. Options-h, –help Show help options -c, –config=FILE Use configuration file -d, –debug Print debugging messages –test-mode Run as unprivileged user, skipping things that require root access –pid-file=FILE File to write PID into –xsessions-dir=DIRECTORY Directory to load X sessions from –xgreeters-dir=DIRECTORY Directory…
lightdm-set-defaults – sets configuration options for lightdm Synopsislightdm-set-defaults [ OPTION ] Descriptionlightdm-set-defaults sets configuration options for lightdm. Requires root permissions to run. Options-h, –help Show help options -k, –keep-old Only update if no default already set -d, –debug Enable debugging messages -r, –remove Remove default value if it’s the current one -s, –session=SESSION_NAME Set the…
lid – Display user’s groups or group’s users Synopsislid [OPTION]… [name] DescriptionDisplays information about groups containing user name, or users contained in group name. By default lid lists groups containing user name, or groups containing the invoking user if name is not specified; the mode of operation can be changed using the -g option. Options-g,…
licensecheck – simple license checker for source files Synopsislicensecheck –help|–version licensecheck [–no-conf] [–verbose] [–copyright] [-l|–lines=N] [-i|–ignore=regex] [-c|–check=regex] [-m|–machine] [-r|–recursive] list of files and directories to check Descriptionlicensecheck attempts to determine the license that applies to each file passed to it, by searching the start of the file for text belonging to various licenses. If any…