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.
defncopy – extract procedures and views from a Microsoft server. Synopsis[-v ] [-U username ] [-P password ] [-S server ] [-D database ] [-i input_file ] [-o output_file ] Bo owner.object_name [owner.object_name … ] Bc Descriptionis a utility program distributed with FreeTDS. It replaces a similar program of the same name distributed by Sybase….
defaults – read or modify GNUstep user defaults Synopsisdefaults [ action ] DescriptionThe ‘defaults’ command lets you to read and modify a user’s defaults. This program replaces the old NeXTstep style dread, dwrite, and dremove programs. If you have access to another user’s defaults database, you may include ‘-u username’ before any other options to…
cryptdir – encrypt/decrypt all files in a directory Synopsiscryptdir [ dir ] decryptdir [ dir ] Introductioncryptdir encrypts all files in the current directory (or the given directory if one is provided as an argument). When called as decryptdir (i.e., same program, different name), all files are decrypted. NotesWhen encrypting, you are prompted twice for…
decrypt – 802.11b packet decryption tool Synopsisdecrypt (-p key | -f dictfile ) -m bssid -e infile -d outfile [-b ] [-o offset ] Descriptiondecrypt is a command line tool that takes 3 pieces of input, a pcap format input file, a WEP key, and a bssid (access point MAC address). If the provided WEP…
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debuginfo-install – install debuginfo packages and their dependencies Synopsisdebuginfo-install package Descriptiondebuginfo-install is a program which installs the RPMs needed to debug the specified package. The package argument can be a wildcard, but will only match installed packages. debuginfo-install will then enable any debuginfo repositories, and install the relevant debuginfo rpm. ExamplesDownload and install all the…
debugapp – A wrapper for openapp. Synopsisdebugapp [–find] [–gdb=…] application [arguments…] Descriptiondebugapp is a tool that helps you start or find applications by name in debugging mode. It acts as a wrapper around openapp , and calls openapp with the –debug option; we recommend using openapp directly. By default gdb is used as the debugger,…
debian-distro-info – provides information about Debian’s distributions Synopsisdebian-distro-info [OPTIONS] Options–date=DATE date for calculating the version (default: today) -h, –help display help message and exit –alias=DIST print the alias (oldstable, stable, testing, unstable) relative to the distribution codename passed as an argument. Only distribution codenames composed of lower case ASCII letters are accepted, and if the…
debconf – run a debconf-using program Synopsis debconf [options] command [args]DescriptionDebconf is a configuration system for Debian packages. For a debconf overview and documentation for sysadmins, see debconf(7) (in the debconf-doc package). The debconf program runs a program under debconf’s control, setting it up to talk with debconf on stdio. The program’s output is expected…
debconf-updatepo – update PO files about debconf templates Synopsisdebconf-updatepo [-v] [-h] [–podir=DIR] [–skip-pot] [–skip-merge] [–msgid-bugs-address=EMAIL] DescriptionThis program reads po/POTFILES.in to determine which master files need to be processed, then extracts new gettext strings into po/templates.pot and updates all po/*.po files. This script can be called either in the top-level directory, or in the debian or…
debconf-show – query the debconf database Synopsis debconf-show packagename […] [–db=dbname] debconf-show –listowners [–db=dbname] debconf-show –listdbsDescriptiondebconf-show lets you query the debconf database in different ways. The most common use is “debconf-show packagename”, which displays all items in the debconf database owned by a given package, and their current values. Questions that have been asked already…
debconf-set-selections – insert new values into the debconf database Synopsis debconf-set-selections file debconf-get-selections | ssh newhost debconf-set-selectionsDescriptiondebconf-set-selections can be used to pre-seed the debconf database with answers, or to change answers in the database. Each question will be marked as seen to prevent debconf from asking the question interactively. Reads from a file if a…
debconf-mergetemplate – merge together multiple debconf template files Synopsis debconf-mergetemplate [options] [templates.ll …] templatesDescriptionNote: This utility is deprecated. You should switch to using po-debconf’s po2debconf program. This program is useful if you have multiple debconf templates files which you want to merge together into one big file. All the specified files will be read in,…
debconf-loadtemplate – load template file into debconf database Synopsis debconf-loadtemplate owner file [file ..]DescriptionLoads one or more template files into the debconf database. The first parameter specifies the owner of the templates (typically, the owner is the name of a debian package). The remaining parameters are template files to load. WarningThis program should never be…
debconf-gettextize – extract translations of debconf templates into PO files Synopsisdebconf-gettextize [-v] [-h] [–podir=DIR] [–choices] [–merge] master [master …] DescriptionThe /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.templates files read by debconf contain English text and translations in the same file. But in source packages, translations are managed in separate files to help translators. In the initial implementation, a master templates file…
debconf-getlang – extract a language from a templates file Synopsis debconf-getlang lang master [translation] debconf-getlang –stats master translation […]DescriptionNote: This utility is deprecated; you should switch to using the po-debconf package. This program helps make and manage translations of debconf templates. There are basically three situations in which this program might be called: A translation…
debconf-get-selections – output contents of debconf database Synopsisdebconf-get-selections [–installer] DescriptionOutput the current debconf database in a format understandable by debconf-set-selections. To dump the debconf database of the debian-installer, from /var/log/installer/cdebconf, use the –installer parameter. AuthorPetter Reinholdtsen <pere [at] hungry.com>
debconf-escape – helper when working with debconf’s escape capability Synopsis debconf-escape -e < unescaped-text debconf-escape -u < escaped-textDescriptionWhen debconf has the ‘escape’ capability set, it will expect commands you send it to have backslashes and newlines escaped (as "\\" and "\n" respectively) and will in turn escape backslashes and newlines in its replies. This can…
debconf-copydb – copy a debconf database Synopsis debconf-copydb sourcedb destdb [–pattern=pattern] [–owner-pattern=pattern] [–config=Foo:bar]Descriptiondebconf-copydb copies items from an existing debconf database into another, possibly new database. The two databases may have different formats; if so a conversion will automatically be done. Optionssourcedb The name of the source database. Typically it will be defined in your debconf.conf…
debconf-communicate – communicate with debconf Synopsis echo commands | debconf-communicate [options] [package]Descriptiondebconf-communicate allows you to communicate with debconf on the fly, from the command line. The package argument is the name of the package which you are pretending to be as you communicate with debconf, and it may be omitted if you are lazy. It…