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.
bti-shrink-urls – convert URLs to a shorter form using a web service Synopsis bti [–escaped] [–help] [URL]Descriptionbti-shrink-urls converts URLs to a shorter form using a web service. Currently http://2tu.us/ (default) and http://bit.ly / http://j.mp are supported. Options–escaped Don’t escape special characters in the URL any more, they are already percent encoded. –help Print help text….
btattach – Attach serial devices to BlueZ stack Synopsisbtattach [-B device] [-A device] [-P protocol] [-R] Descriptionbtattach(1) is used to attach a serial UART to the Bluetooth stack as a transport interface. Options-B device, –brder device Attach a BR/EDR controller -A device, –amp device Attach an AMP controller -P protocol, –protocol protocol Specify the protocol type for talking to the device. Supported values are:…
bt-obex – a bluetooth OBEX client/server Synopsisbt-obex [OPTION…] Help Options: -h, –help Application Options: -a, –adapter=<name|mac> -s, –server [<path>] -p, –opp <name|mac> <file> -f, –ftp=<name|mac> DescriptionThis utility implemented support of Object Push Profile (OPP) and File Transfer Profile (FTP). You can send and receive files to/from remote device using this tool. Options-h, –help Show help -a, –adapter <name|mac>…
bt-network – a bluetooth network manager Synopsisbt-network [OPTION…] Help Options: -h, –help Application Options: -a, –adapter=<name|mac> -c, –connect <name|mac> <uuid> -s, –server <gn|panu|nap> <brige> DescriptionThis utility is used to manage network services (client/server). All servers will be automatically unregistered when the application terminates. Options-h, –help Show help -a, –adapter <name|mac> Specify adapter to use by his Name or MAC address (if…
bt-device – a bluetooth device manager Synopsisbt-device [OPTION…] Help Options: -h, –help Application Options: -a, –adapter=<name|mac> -l, –list -c, –connect=<mac> -d, –disconnect=<name|mac> -r, –remove=<name|mac> -i, –info=<name|mac> -s, –services <name|mac> [<pattern>] –set <name|mac> <property> <value> -v, –verbose DescriptionThis utility is used to manage Bluetooth devices. You can list added devices, connect to a new device, disconnect device, remove added device, show…
bt-adapter – a bluetooth agent Synopsisbt-agent [OPTION…] Help Options: -h, –help Application Options: -c, –capability=<capability> -p, –pin -d, –daemon DescriptionThis interactive utility is used to manage incoming Bluetooth requests (eg. request of pincode, request of authorize a connection/service request, etc). Options-h, –help Show help -c, –capability <capability> Specify the input and output capabilities of the…
bt-adapter – a bluetooth adapter manager Synopsisbt-adapter [OPTION…] Help Options: -h, –help Application Options: -l, –list -a, –adapter=<name|mac> -i, –info -d, –discover –set <property> <value> DescriptionThis utility is used to manage Bluetooth adapters. You can list all available adapters, show information about adapter, change adapter properties or discover remote devices. Options-h, –help Show help -l, –list List…
bssh/bvnc/bshell – Browse for SSH/VNC servers on the local network Synopsisbssh bvnc bshell Descriptionbssh/bvnc/bshell browses for SSH/VNC servers on the local network, shows them in a GUI for the user to select one and finally calls ssh/vncviewer after a selection was made. If the binary is called as bssh only ssh servers will be shown….
bsqlodbc – batch SQL script processor using ODBC Synopsis[-hqv ] [-U username ] [-P password ] [-S server ] [-D database ] [-i input_file ] [-o output_file ] [-e error_file ] [-t field_term ] [-V odbc_version ] Descriptionis a utility program distributed with FreeTDS. is a non-interactive equivalent of the `isql’ utility programs distributed by…
bsqldb – batch SQL script processor using DB-Library Synopsis[-hqv ] [-S servername ] [-D database ] [-U username ] [-P password ] [-i input_file ] [-o output_file ] [-e error_file ] [-H hostname ] [-t field_term ] [-R pivot_description ] Descriptionis a utility program distributed with FreeTDS. is a non-interactive equivalent of the "isql" utility…
bspatch – apply a patch built with bsdiff(1) SynopsisAo Ar oldfile Ac Ao Ar newfile Ac Ao Ar patchfile Ac Descriptiongenerates Ao Ar newfile Ac from Ao Ar oldfile Ac and Ao Ar patchfile Ac where Ao Ar patchfile Ac is a binary patch built by bsdiff(1). uses memory equal to the size of Ao…
bsondump – MongoDB BSON Utility SynopsisThe bsondump converts BSON files into human-readable formats, including JSON. For example, bsondump is useful for reading the output files generated by mongodump. IMPORTANT: bsondump is a diagnostic tool for inspecting BSON files, not a tool for data ingestion or other application use. Optionsbsondump bsondump –help, -h Returns information on…
bsmtp – Bacula’s SMTP client (mail submission program) Synopsisbsmtp [options] <recipient> <…> Descriptionbsmtp is a simple mail user agent designed to permit more flexibility than the standard mail programs typically found on Unix systems, and to ease portability. It can even run on Windows machines. It is used by the Director daemon to send notifications and…
bsetroot – blackbox utility to change root window appearance Synopsisbsetroot -help bsetroot [ -display display ] -solid color bsetroot [ -display display ] -mod x y -fg color -bg color bsetroot [ -display display ] -gradient texture -from color -to color DescriptionBsetroot is a utility that can control the appearance of the root window in…
bsetbg – utility to manipulate the appearance of the X11 desktop’s root window. Synopsisbsetbg [options] image Descriptionbsetbg is intended to provide a standard method for the Blackbox window manager to alter the background of the root window (although it will work with any other window manager as well). bsetbg acts as a wrapper both to…
bsearch – manages one-time passwords Synopsisbsearch [-KVvh ] [-b block-size ] [-m max-cache-size ] file [key …] DescriptionThe bsearch program performs binary searches of file which must be a sorted flat text file. Each line is a record. Each record starts with a key that is optionally followed by whitespace and a value. Whitespace may…
tar – manipulate tape archives Synopsis[bundled-flags Ao args Ac [Ao file Ac | Ao pattern Ac … ] ] Br q Fl c [options ] [files | directories ] Br q Fl r | Fl u –f archive-file [options ] [files | directories ] Br q Fl t | Fl x [options ] [patterns ]…
bsdiff – generate a patch between two binary files SynopsisAo Ar oldfile Ac Ao Ar newfile Ac Ao Ar patchfile Ac Descriptioncompares Ao Ar oldfile Ac to Ao Ar newfile Ac and writes to Ao Ar patchfile Ac a binary patch suitable for use by bspatch(1). When Ao Ar oldfile Ac and Ao Ar newfile…
cpio – copy files to and from archives SynopsisBr q Fl i [options ] [pattern … ] [< archive ] Br q Fl o [options ] < name-list [> archive ] Br q Fl p [options ] dest-dir < name-list Descriptioncopies files between archives and directories. This implementation can extract from tar, pax, cpio, zip,…
write – send a message to another user Synopsisuser [tty ] DescriptionThe utility allows you to communicate with other users, by copying lines from your terminal to theirs. When you run the command, the user you are writing to gets a message of the form: Message from yourname [at] yourhost on yourtty at hh:mm ……