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.
bbkeys – a general XWindow keygrabber Synopsisbbkeys [OPTION] Descriptionbbkeys is the keygrabber for the blackbox window manager. bbkeys handles all keybindings and keyboard shortcuts for blackbox. It uses blackbox’s Image classes for rendering its look and feel so that bbkeys will render itself to match whatever blackbox style is used. It is highly configurable either…
baz – arch command line client tool Synopsisbaz command [ command_options ] baz command [-h|–help|-H] baz [-h|–help|-H|-V|–version] Descriptionbaz is an implementation of arch. arch is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions of files and directories (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why changes occurred, etc., like…
bats – Bash Automated Testing System Synopsisbats [-c] [-p | -t] test [test …] test is the path to a Bats test file, or the path to a directory containing Bats test files. DescriptionBats is a TAP-compliant testing framework for Bash. It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs you write behave…
bat – Bacula Administration Tool Console Synopsisbat [options] DescriptionThis manual page documents briefly the bat command, the Qt4 version of the Bacula Administration Tool console. This is a GUI full featured program similar the bconsole program, but it is graphical oriented and more features. Optionsbat [-s] [-c config_file] [-d debug_level] [-t] -c <config> Specify configuration…
bashmount – tool to mount and unmount removable media Synopsisbashmount Descriptionbashmount is a menu-driven bash script that can use different backends to easily mount, unmount or eject removable devices without dependencies on udisks or any GUI. An extensive configuration file allows many aspects of the script to be modified and custom commands to be run…
bashdb – bash debugger script Synopsisbashdb [options] [–] script-name [script options] bashdb [options] -c execution-string bash –debugger [bash-options…] script-name [script options] Description"bashdb" is a bash script to which arranges for another bash script to be debugged. The debugger has a similar command interface as gdb(1). The way this script arranges debugging to occur is by…
bashbug – report a bug in bash Synopsis bashbug [–help] [–version] [bug-report-email-addresses]Descriptionbashbug is a utility for reporting bugs in Bash to the maintainers. bashbug will start up your preferred editor with a preformatted bug report template for you to fill in. Save the file and quit the editor once you have completed the missing fields….
basepods – print out pod paths for the standard perl manpages DescriptionThis program uses your configuration’s "installprivlib" directory to look up the full paths to those pod pages. Any files in that directory whose names end in ".pod" will be printed to the standard output, one per line. This is normally used in backticks to…
basenc – Encode/decode data and print to standard output Synopsisbasenc [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/] Descriptionbasenc encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. –base64 same as ‘base64’ program (RFC4648 section 4) –base64url file-…
basename – strip directory and suffix from filenames Synopsisbasename ,NAME /[,SUFFIX/] basename ,OPTION/… ,NAME/… DescriptionPrint NAME with any leading directory components removed. If specified, also remove a trailing SUFFIX. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -a, –multiple support multiple arguments and treat each as a NAME -s, –suffix=,SUFFIX/ remove a…
base64 – base64 encode/decode data and print to standard output Synopsisbase64 [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/] DescriptionBase64 encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -d, –decode decode data -i, –ignore-garbage when decoding, ignore…
base32 – base32 encode/decode data and print to standard output Synopsisbase32 [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/] DescriptionBase32 encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -d, –decode decode data -i, –ignore-garbage when decoding, ignore…
barrybackup – Barry Project’s backup program for the BlackBerry handheld Synopsisbarrybackup [-?][-d] Descriptionbarrybackup is a GUI application for backing up and restoring Blackberry handheld databases. The application allows for filtering of databases for both backup and restore, so not all databases need to be backed up at once, nor all restored. Backups and configuration files…
bareftp – graphical file transfer client Synopsisbareftp [OPTION] … DescriptionbareFTP is a graphical file transfer client supporting the FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). bareFTP is written in C#, targeting the Mono framework and the GNOME desktop environment. bareFTP is free and open source software released under the terms of…
barcode – a stand alone program to run the barcode library Synopsisbarcode [-b – | string] [-e encoding] [-o – | outfile] [ other-flags ] DescriptionThe information below is extracted from the texinfo file, which is the preferred source of information. The barcode program is a front-end to access some features of the library from…
baobab – A graphical disk usage analyzer for the GNOME desktop Synopsisbaobab [OPTIONS…] [DIRECTORY] Descriptionbaobab (a.k.a. Disk Usage Analyzer) is able to scan either specific folders (local and remote) or devices, in order to give the user a tree representation including each directory size or percentage in the branch. It also auto-detects any mounted/unmounted device….
Banshee – Media Management and Playback application Muinshee – Media Management and Playback application Synopsisbanshee [options…] [files|URIs…] muinshee [options…] [files|URIs…] DescriptionBanshee is an media management and playback application for the GNOME desktop, allowing users to import audio from CDs, search their library, create playlists of selections of their library, sync music to/from iPods and other…
bannergrab – a network service banner grabbing tool Synopsisbannergrab [options] host port Descriptionbannergrab performs connection, trigger and basic service information collection. There are basic banner grabbing modes, the first mode (the default one) sends triggers to the services and performs basic information collection. The second mode (–no-triggers), only connects to the service and returns the…
banner – prints a short string to the console in very large letters Synopsisbanner string DescriptionThis is a classic-style banner program similar to the one found in Solaris or AIX in the late 1990s. It prints a short string to the console in very large letters. Banners that do not fit in the terminal will…
Balsa – the GNOME email client. DescriptionYou can use Balsa to fetch, read, write and send e-mails. It supports * local mailboxes in maildir, mbox and/or mh format, * nested mailboxes, * protocols POP3, IMAP and SMTP, * multithreaded mail retrieval, * GnuPG/GPG encryption, LDAP, Kerberos and SSL, * MIME (view images, save parts), * multiple character sets, * GPE address book, * printing and…