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.
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…
acpihelp – ACPI help utility Synopsisacpihelp <option>… [<name-prefix>|<hex-value>] DescriptionThis manual page briefly documents the acpihelp command. The option list is taken from the acpihelp interactive help. acpihelp provides descriptive text for AML and ASL keywords, methods, and opcodes. Much more detailed documentation may be found at http://www.acpica.org/documentation/. If neither a <name-prefix> or a <hex-value> is…
acpiexec – ACPI AML execution and debug utility Synopsisacpiexec [<option>…] <aml-file> … DescriptionThis manual page briefly documents the acpiexec command. The option list is taken from the acpiexec interactive help. acpiexec provides a simulated execution environment for AML code so that it can be more easily tested and debugged. Much more detailed documentation may be…
acpidump – ACPI table dump utility Synopsisacpidump [<option>…] DescriptionThis manual page briefly documents the acpidump command. The option list is taken from the interactive help. The acpidump command extracts the ACPI tables currently in use from the running kernel in a form usable for later processing by the acpixtract command. Invocation of acpidump without parameters…
acpibin – ACPI binary AML file utility Synopsisacpibin [<option>…] DescriptionThis manual page briefly documents the acpibin command. The option list is taken from the acpibin interactive help. acpibin is a command provided to perform some basic and common operations on AML binary files. Much more detailed documentation may be found at http://www.acpica.org/documentation/. Options-c <file1> <file2>…
acpi_available – test whether ACPI subsystem is available Synopsisacpi_available Descriptionacpi_available checks whether the ACPI ("Advanced Configuration and Power Interface") subsystem is available, as evidenced by the presence of the /proc/acpi directory. OptionsNone. Exit Status0 (true) ACPI subsystem is available 1 (false) ACPI subsystem is not available 2 usage error (arguments supplied)Files/proc/acpi ACPI status information fileAuthorThis…
acpi – Shows battery status and other ACPI information Synopsisacpi [options] Descriptionacpi Shows information from the /proc or the /sys filesystem, such as battery status or thermal information. Options-b | –battery show battery information -a | –ac-adapter show ac adapter information -t | –thermal show thermal information -c | –cooling show cooling device information -V…
aconnect – ALSA sequencer connection manager Synopsisaconnect [-d] [-options] sender receiver aconnect -i|-o [-options] aconnect -x Descriptionaconnect is a utility to connect and disconnect two existing ports on ALSA sequencer system. The ports with the arbitrary subscription permission, such as created by aseqview(1), can be connected to any (MIDI) device ports using aconnect. For example,…
aclocal – manual page for aclocal 1.16.5 Synopsisaclocal [,OPTION/]… DescriptionGenerate ‘aclocal.m4’ by scanning ‘configure.ac’ or ‘configure.in’ Options–automake-acdir=,DIR/ directory holding automake-provided m4 files –system-acdir=,DIR/ directory holding third-party system-wide files –diff[=,COMMAND/] run COMMAND [diff -u] on M4 files that would be changed (implies –install and –dry-run) –dry-run pretend to, but do not actually update any file –force…
aclocal – manual page for aclocal 1.13.4 Synopsisaclocal [OPTION]… DescriptionGenerate ‘aclocal.m4’ by scanning ‘configure.ac’ or ‘configure.in’ Options–automake-acdir=DIR directory holding automake-provided m4 files –system-acdir=DIR directory holding third-party system-wide files –diff[=COMMAND] run COMMAND [diff -u] on M4 files that would be changed (implies –install and –dry-run) –dry-run pretend to, but do not actually update any file –force…
aclocal – manual page for aclocal 1.16.5 Synopsisaclocal [,OPTION/]… DescriptionGenerate ‘aclocal.m4’ by scanning ‘configure.ac’ or ‘configure.in’ Options–automake-acdir=,DIR/ directory holding automake-provided m4 files –system-acdir=,DIR/ directory holding third-party system-wide files –diff[=,COMMAND/] run COMMAND [diff -u] on M4 files that would be changed (implies –install and –dry-run) –dry-run pretend to, but do not actually update any file –force…
aclocal – manual page for aclocal 1.15.1 Synopsisaclocal [,OPTION/]… DescriptionGenerate ‘aclocal.m4’ by scanning ‘configure.ac’ or ‘configure.in’ Options–automake-acdir=,DIR/ directory holding automake-provided m4 files –system-acdir=,DIR/ directory holding third-party system-wide files –diff[=,COMMAND/] run COMMAND [diff -u] on M4 files that would be changed (implies –install and –dry-run) –dry-run pretend to, but do not actually update any file –force…
aclocal – manual page for aclocal 1.13.4 Synopsisaclocal [OPTION]… DescriptionGenerate ‘aclocal.m4’ by scanning ‘configure.ac’ or ‘configure.in’ Options–automake-acdir=DIR directory holding automake-provided m4 files –system-acdir=DIR directory holding third-party system-wide files –diff[=COMMAND] run COMMAND [diff -u] on M4 files that would be changed (implies –install and –dry-run) –dry-run pretend to, but do not actually update any file –force…
ack – grep-like text finder Synopsis ack [options] PATTERN [FILE…] ack -f [options] [DIRECTORY…]DescriptionAck is designed as a replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. Ack searches the named input FILEs (or standard input if no files are named, or the file name – is given) for lines containing a match to the given…
achfile – change type and/or creator of Apple Macintosh files (netatalk format) Synopsis achfile [-t type] [-c creator] file…Descriptionachfile changes the Macintosh type and/or creator of the file arguments which have a corresponding .AppleDouble file. Options-t type change the type. -c creator change the creator. Diagnosticsreturns exit status 0 if all files changed successfully See Alsoafile(1), afpd(8)
acheck – Check common localization mistakes Synopsisacheck [OPTIONS] [INPUT_FILE] DescriptionThis program parses a file checking for syntax rules and optionally asking Aspell for checking word spelling. It makes fix suggestions and outputs a corrected file accordingly adding review comments if requested. It tries to find the file type according to the extension or the first…
ac – print statistics about users’ connect time Synopsisac [ -d | –daily-totals ] [ -y | –print-year ] [ -p | –individual-totals ] [ people ] [ -f | –file filename ] [ -a | –all-days ] [ –complain ] [ –reboots ] [ –supplants ] [ –timewarps ] [ –compatibility ] [ –tw-leniency…