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.
alsabat – command-line sound tester for ALSA sound card driver Synopsisalsabat [flags] DescriptionALSABAT(ALSA Basic Audio Tester) is a simple command-line utility intended to help automate audio driver and sound server testing with little human interaction. ALSABAT can be used to test audio quality, stress test features and test audio before and after PM state changes….
alsa_in, alsa_out – Jack clients that perform I/O with an alternate audio interface Synopsisalsa_in [options] alsa_out [options] DescriptionA JACK client that opens a specified audio interface (different to the one used by the JACK server, if any) and moves audio data between its JACK ports and the interface. alsa_in will provide data from the interface…
alsa_in, alsa_out – Jack clients that perform I/O with an alternate audio interface Synopsisalsa_in [options] alsa_out [options] DescriptionA JACK client that opens a specified audio interface (different to the one used by the JACK server, if any) and moves audio data between its JACK ports and the interface. alsa_in will provide data from the interface…
alsa-info.sh – command-line utility to gather information about the ALSA subsystem Synopsisalsa-info.sh [options] Descriptionalsa-info.sh is a command-line utility gathering information about the ALSA subsystem. It is used mostly for debugging purposes. Options–upload Upload contents to the server (www.alsa-project.org or pastebin.ca). –no-upload Do not upload contents to the remote server. –stdout Print information to standard output….
alsadelay – a command to (re)initialize sound hardware Synopsisalsa-delay [options] requested_delay_in_ms [output_card[,device]] Descriptionalsa-delay is a command-line utility to setup an audio delay. The snd-aloop ALSA driver is used to send all PCM streams back to the user space and the alsaloop utility is used to send this stream to a real hardware. The parameter output_card…
alpine – an Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email Syntaxalpine [ options ] [ address , address ] alpinef [ options ] [ address , address ] DescriptionAlpine is a screen-oriented message-handling tool. In its default configuration, Alpine offers an intentionally limited set of functions geared toward the novice user, but it also…
clogin – Cisco login script Synopsisclogin [-autoenable] [-noenable] [-dSV] [-c command] [-E var=x] [-e enable-password] [-f cloginrc-file] [-p user-password] [-s script-file] [-t timeout] [-u username] [-v vty-password] [-w enable-username] [-x command-file] [-y ssh_cypher_type] router [router…] Descriptionclogin is an expect(1) script to automate the process of logging into a Cisco router, Catalyst switch, Extreme switch, Juniper…
AllTray – Dock any program into the system tray. Synopsis alltray [program] [options]DescriptionWith AllTray you can dock any application with no native tray icon (like Evolution, Thunderbird, Terminals) into the system tray. A high-light feature is that a click on the "close" button will minimize back to system tray. It works well with Gnome, KDE,…
allneeded – force the calculation of all fonts now needed Synopsisallneeded [-r] files … Descriptionallneeded forces the calculation of all fonts that are needed to preview a set of dvi files. Just specify where the program should search for files on the commandline. The fonts generation is triggered by running dvips(1) over all accessible dvi-files….
allec – force the most important ec-fonts to be calculated Synopsisallec [-r] Descriptionallec forces a large number of ec-style Fonts to be calculated as pixel files. This is done through running dvips(1) over a certain test-file. Therefore, the fonts are created in the resolution needed by dvips. If the -r flag is specified, the command…
allcm – force the most important Computer-Modern-fonts to be calculated Synopsisallcm [-r] Descriptionallcm forces a large number of Computer Modern Fonts to be calculated as pixel files. This is done through running dvips(1) over a certain test-file. Therefore, the fonts are created in the resolution needed by dvips. If the -r flag is specified, the…
alink – link (reloacatable) object files created by AS Syntaxalink <source file(s)> <target file> [options] Descriptionalink will one day be a the linker companion tool to asl. It is work in progress, and it won’t be of much use for most users in its current state. Contact the author (see below) if you want to…
align_image_stack – Align overlapping images for HDR or focus stack creation Synopsisalign_image_stack [options] input files Descriptionalign_image_stack is used for the alignment of slightly misaligned images or for the registration of a stereo images pair. When several differently exposed images are taken in the process of creating a High Dynamic Range image, the images are not…
alien – Convert or install an alien binary package Synopsis alien [–to-deb] [–to-rpm] [–to-tgz] [–to-slp] [options] file […]Descriptionalien is a program that converts between Red Hat rpm, Debian deb, Stampede slp, Slackware tgz, and Solaris pkg file formats. If you want to use a package from another linux distribution than the one you have installed…
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ali – list mail aliases Synopsis ali [-alias aliasfile] [-list | -nolist] [-user | -nouser] [-version] [-help] [aliases …]DescriptionAli searches the named mail alias files for each of the given aliases. It creates a list of addresses for those aliases, and writes that list on standard output. If no arguments are given, ali outputs all…
alexandria – a book collection manager Synopsisalexandria [OPTIONS] DescriptionAlexandria is a GNOME desktop application for managing book collections. It has a simple user interface which makes it easy to enter the details of your library, generally using Internet sources to find catalogue information for your books. It also enables you to create filtered views of…
alevtd – webserver for videotext pages Synopsisalevtd [ options ] Descriptionalevtd is http daemon which serves videotext pages as HTML. Tune in some station with a utility like v4lctl or some TV application. Then start it and point your browser to http://localhost:5654/ Pages may be requested either in HTML format (http://localhost:5654/<page>/ or http://localhost:5654/<page>/<subpage>.html) or in…
alevt-date – display/set time received via Teletext Synopsisalevt-date [options] Descriptionalevt-date displays the time received from a Teletext source. It can be used to set the system time. The date is not interpreted (not even transmitted on most channels). So it allows only adjustment of +/-12 hours. The default allowed adjustment is limited to +/-2 hours…
alevt-cap – simple capture of teletext pages Synopsisalevt-cap [options] ppp[.ss] … Descriptionalevt-cap is a simple program to capture teletext pages and write them to disk. You just give it a list of pages to fetch and it will save them. Nothing fancy like time-outs, page ranges, or channel name detection is supported. Though, it supports…