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.
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…
aleph – extended Unicode TeX Synopsisaleph [options] [&format] [file|\commands] DescriptionRun the Aleph typesetter on file, usually creating file.dvi. If the file argument has no extension, ".tex" will be appended to it. Instead of a filename, a set of Aleph commands can be given, the first of which must start with a backslash. With a &format…
alembic – manual page for alembic 0.8.7 Descriptionusage: -c [-h] [-c CONFIG] [-n NAME] [-x X] [–raiseerr] {branches,current,downgrade,edit,heads,history,init,list_templates,merge,revision,show,stamp,upgrade} …positional arguments:{branches,current,downgrade,edit,heads,history,init,list_templates,merge,revision,show,stamp,upgrade} branches Show current branch points current Display the current revision for a database. downgrade Revert to a previous version. edit Edit revision script(s) using $EDITOR heads Show current available heads in the script directory history…
ale – a synthetic capture engine and renderer Synopsisale [OPTIONS] original-frame [supplemental-frames …] output-file ale [HELP OPTIONS] ale –version DescriptionALE is a free software synthetic capture engine and renderer accepting, as input, a sequence of image frames, and producing, as output, rendered images, registration data, and 3D models (currently experimental). Examplesale –hu Print the help…
aldo – A fully console morse code trainer written in ISO C++. Synopsisaldo DescriptionAldo is developed from scratch in ISO C++ using GNU C++ Standard Library and libao (www.xiph.org/ao). It is a morse code learning tool which provides four type of training methods: Blocks Identify blocks of random characters played in morse code. Koch Two…
alcc – text based eD2k links calculator for aMule Synopsis_untranslated[-p] _untranslated[-v] <inputfiles_list> _untranslated[-h] DescriptionCompute the eD2k links of all the input files given in the <inputfiles_list> (There can be one or more files). Compute and add part hashes to the computed eD2k links. Prints a short usage description. Be verbose – show also calculation steps.Reporting…
aLinkCreator – the aMule eD2k link creator SynopsisDescriptionalc is a graphical utility to create an eD2k link to any file on your computer. This app doesn’t take any arguments. Reporting BugsPlease report bugs either on our forum (http://forum.amule.org/), or in our bugtracker (http://bugs.amule.org/). Please do not report bugs in e-mail, neither to our mailing list…
albatross – a tool for finding fonts that contain a given (Unicode) glyph. Synopsisalbatross [options] glyphs… Descriptionalbatross is a command line tool for finding fonts that contain a given (Unicode) glyph. It relies on Fontconfig, a library for configuring and customizing font access. Albatross takes a list of glyphs as input. Three formats are supported:…
alacarte – Edit freedesktop.org menus Synopsis alacarteDescriptionalacarte is a graphical editor for the freedesktop.org menus that are used by many desktop environments. It can also edit and create application desktop files. Optionsalacarte does not accept any commandline options. EnvironmentXDG_CONFIG_DIRS alacarte looks in the menus subdirectory of these directories for menu files. The default location for…
al, al2 – Mono Assembly Linker Synopsisal [option] [source-files] DescriptionAL is the Mono assembly linkder. This linker is used to put together assemblies from a collection of modules (.netmodule files), assembly manifest files and resources. Do not confuse this with the monolinker, which is a tool to reduce the size of assemblies based on the…