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.
advzip – AdvanceCOMP ZIP Compression Utility Synopsisadvzip [-a, –add] [-x, –extract] [-l, –list] [-z, –recompress] [-t, –test] [-0, –shrink-store] [-1, –shrink-fast] [-2, –shrink-normal] [-3, –shrink-extra] [-4, –shrink-insane] [-i, –iter N] [-k, –keep-file-time] [-p, –pedantic] [-q, –quiet] [-h, –help] [-V, –version] ARCHIVES… [FILES…] DescriptionThe main purpose of this utility is to recompress and test the zip…
advpng – AdvanceCOMP PNG Compression Utility Synopsisadvpng [-l, –list] [-z, –recompress] [-0, –shrink-0] [-1, –shrink-fast] [-2, –shrink-normal [-3, –shrink-extra] [-4, –shrink-insane] [-i, –iter N] [-f, –force] [-q, –quiet] [-h, –help] [-V, –version] FILES… DescriptionThe main purpose of this utility is to recompress png files to get the smallest possible size. Please note that this utility…
advmng – AdvanceCOMP MNG Compression Utility Synopsisadvmng [-l, –list] [-z, –recompress] [-x, –extract] [-a, –add RATE MNG_FILE PNG_FILES…] [-0, –shrink-store] [-1, –shrink-fast] [-2, –shrink-normal] [-3, –shrink-extra] [-4, –shrink-insane] [-i, –iter N] [-s, –scroll HxV] [-S, –scroll-square] [-e, –expand] [-r, –reduce] [-c, –lc] [-C, –vlc] [-f, –force] [-q, –quiet] [-v, –verbose] [-h, –help] [-V, –version] FILES……
advdef – AdvanceCOMP Deflate Compression Utility Synopsisadvdef [-z, –recompress] [-0, –shrink-store] [-1, –shrink-fast] [-2, –shrink-normal] [-3, –shrink-extra] [-4, –shrink-insane] [-i, –iter N] [-f, –force] [-q, –quiet] [-h, –help] [-V, –version] FILES… DescriptionThe main purpose of this utility is to recompress the data present in the .png, .mng, .gz, .tgz and .svgz files. The internal structure…
adplugdb – AdPlug database maintenance utility Synopsisadplugdb [OPTION]… COMMAND [ARGUMENT]… Descriptionadplugdb maintains database files in AdPlug database format. It can add, list and remove records within a central database, or merge a set of databases together into one single database. adplugdb always operates on a central database file. The location of this database file is…
adplay – AdPlay/UNIX console-based OPL2 audio player Synopsisadplay [OPTION]… FILE… DescriptionAdPlay/UNIX is AdPlug’s UNIX console-based frontend. It tries to play back all given FILEs, using one of many available output mechanisms. AdPlay/UNIX plays endlessly, if only one file is given. With multiple files, it plays them in a sequence and exits after the last file….
ADMesh – a program for processing triangulated solid meshes Synopsisadmesh [OPTION]… file DescriptionADMesh is a program for processing triangulated solid meshes. Currently, ADMesh only reads the STL file format that is used for rapid prototyping applications, although it can write STL, VRML, OFF, and DXF files. By default, ADMesh performs all of the mesh checking…
addwords – Adding words to specified dictionary collectively Synopsisaddwords [{-cs|-cannaserver} cannaserver][-l file] dicname Descriptionaddwords adds words to specified dictionary according to the word information from the standard input. The standard input must be in a format of “Text Dictionary format” of Canna. dicname must be a “Text Dictionary format” which can be rewritten. Options-is cannaserver…
addr2name, name2addr – perform DNS lookups from scripts Synopsisaddr2name [-46cmnr] [HOSTNAMES] name2addr [-46cn] [HOSTNAMES] DescriptonWrite addresses or canonical hostname of specified names to the standard output. If no names are specified via the command line, they are read from the standard input. Options-4 or –ipv4 Only try to perform IPv4 lookups. -6 or –ipv6 Only…
addr2line – convert addresses into file names and line numbers Synopsisaddr2line [-a|–addresses] [-b bfdname|–target=bfdname] [-C|–demangle[=style]] [-r|–no-recurse-limit] [-R|–recurse-limit] [-e filename|–exe=filename] [-f|–functions] [-s|–basename] [-i|–inlines] [-p|–pretty-print] [-j|–section=name] [-H|–help] [-V|–version] [addr addr …] Descriptionaddr2line translates addresses into file names and line numbers. Given an address in an executable or an offset in a section of a relocatable object, it uses the debugging information…
addftinfo – add information to troff font files for use with groff Synopsis[ -asc-height n ] [ -body-depth n ] [ -body-height n ] [ -cap-height n ] [ -comma-depth n ] [ -desc-depth n ] [ -fig-height n ] [ -x-height n ] res unitwidth font –help -v –version Descriptionaddftinfo reads a troff font…
adddebug – Modifies Makefile(s) to add debug info Synopsis adddebug [-k] [-r] [-n]Descriptionadddebug modifies the Makefile in the current directory (and optionally in its subdirectories) to add debug info (-g3). It will also remove optimisations (-O[1-9]). This utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit. Options-k Keep optimisations (do not remove -O[1-9]? flags which…
add-apt-repository – Adds a repository into the /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d or removes an existing one Synopsisadd-apt-repository [OPTIONS] [LINE] Descriptionadd-apt-repository is a script which adds an external APT repository to either /etc/apt/sources.list or a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ or removes an already existing repository. OptionsNote that the –list, –ppa, –cloud, –uri, –sourceslist, and LINE parameters are mutually…
acyclic – make directed graph acyclic Synopsisacyclic [ -nv? ] [ -o outfile ] [ file ] Descriptionacyclic is a filter that takes a directed graph as input and outputs a copy of the graph with sufficient edges reversed to make the graph acyclic. The reversed edge inherits all of the attributes of the original…
activate-devpay – create the token and certificate files for Amazon S3 Synopsisactivate-devpay DescriptionThis program creates the token and certificate files for Amazon Devpay’s Simple Token Service (STS). You can then use those files with the S3 device. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a…
acroread – Adobe PDF Viewer for viewing PDF files on X Window System. Synopsisacroread [OPTIONS] [file] DescriptionAdobe Reader is a free PDF reader, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. It is a tool for opening and using Adobe PDFs that are created in Adobe Acrobat. Although you can’t create PDFs in Reader, you can…
acpixtract – ACPICA source code conversion utility Synopsisacpixtract [<option>…] <acpidump-file> DescriptionThis manual page briefly documents the acpixtract command. The option list is taken from the acpixtract interactive help. acpixtract extracts binary ACPI tables from the output of the acpidump command (see the pm-tools package). A default invocation will extract the DSDT and all SSDTs. Much…
acpitool – a Linux ACPI client, allowing you to query or set ACPI values Synopsisacpitool [ -aAbBcefFhjlmnosStTvVwWz ] Descriptionacpitool is a Linux ACPI client. It simply reads /proc/acpi or /sys/class entries and presents the output in a meaningfull, human-readable format. It provides a.o. information on battery status, AC adapter presence, thermal reading, etc. This command…
acpisrc – ACPICA source code conversion utility Synopsisacpisrc [-c|-l|-u][-d][-s][-v][-y]<source-dir><dest-dir> <aml-file> DescriptionThis manual page briefly documents the acpisrc command. The option list is taken from the acpisrc interactive help. acpisrc converts the ACPICA into various forms for use with different operating systems. Source for ACPICA may be obtained from http://www.acpica.org/source/. Much more detailed documentation may be…
acpinames – ACPI name space dump utility Synopsisacpinames <option>… <aml-file> DescriptionThis manual page briefly documents the acpinames command. The option list is taken from the acpinames interactive help. acpinames prints out the complete ACPI name space for an AML file. Much more detailed documentation may be found at http://www.acpica.org/documentation/. Options-? [<name-prefix>] Display this help message…