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.
bcm43xx-fwcutter – manual page for bcm43xx-fwcutter Synopsisbcm43xx-fwcutter [OPTION] [DRIVER] DescriptionBcm43xx-fwcutter can extract the firmware for your Broadcom 43xx hardware from different closed source drivers. The bcm43xx driver depends on this firmware files and can’t work without them. Currently bcm43xx-fwcutter supports Apple MacOS X, Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP and Linux drivers, but keep in mind that bcm43xx-fwcutter…
bchunk – CD image format conversion from bin/cue to iso/cdr Synopsisbchunk [-v] [-p] [-r] [-w] [-s] <image.bin> <image.cue> <basename> Descriptionbchunk converts a CD image in a ".bin / .cue" format (sometimes ".raw / .cue") to a set of .iso and .cdr tracks. The bin/cue format is used by some non-Unix cd-writing software, but is not…
bcharge – program to set BlackBerry handhelds to 500mA Synopsisbcharge Descriptionbcharge is a program that sends a special handshake to all BlackBerry devices it finds on the USB bus. This handshake causes the device to reset itself, and then request 500mA instead of the usual 100mA. This allows proper charging on Linux. It is safe…
bcftools – utilities for variant calling and manipulating VCFs and BCFs. Synopsisbcftools [–version|–version-only] [–help] [COMMAND] [OPTIONS] DescriptionBCFtools is a set of utilities that manipulate variant calls in the Variant Call Format (VCF) and its binary counterpart BCF. All commands work transparently with both VCFs and BCFs, both uncompressed and BGZF-compressed. Most commands accept VCF, bgzipped…
bcfg2 – reconfigure machine based on settings in BCFG2 Synopsisbcfg2 [-d] [-v] [-p] [-c cache file] [-e] [-f config file] [-I] [-q] [-b bundle] [-r removal mode] Descriptionbcfg2 Runs the bcfg2 configuration process on the current host. This process consists of first fetching and executing probes, uploading probe results, fetching the client configuration, checking the…
bccmd – Utility for the CSR BCCMD interface Synopsisbccmd bccmd [-t <transport>] [-d <device>] <command> [<args>] bccmd [-h –help] Descriptionbccmd issues BlueCore commands to Cambridge Silicon Radio devices. If run without the <command> argument, a short help page will be displayed. Options-t <transport> Specify the communication transport. Valid options are: HCI Local device with Host Controller…
bcc – Bruce’s C compiler Synopsisbcc [-03EGNOPSVcegvwxW] [-Aas_option] [-Bexecutable_prefix] [-Ddefine] [-Uundef] [-Mc_mode] [-o outfile] [-ansi] [-Ccc1_option] [-Pcpp_option] [-Iinclude_dir] [-Lld_option] [-Ttmpdir] [-Qc386_option] [-ttext_segno] [ld_options] [infiles] DescriptionBcc is a simple C compiler that produces 8086 assembler, in addition compiler compile time options allow 80386 or 6809 versions. The compiler understands traditional K&R C with just the restriction…
bc – An arbitrary precision calculator language Syntaxbc [ -hlwsqv ] [long-options] [ file … ] Descriptionbc is a language that supports arbitrary precision numbers with interactive execution of statements. There are some similarities in the syntax to the C programming language. A standard math library is available by command line option. If requested, the…
bbox – prints out the bounding box of a rawppm or rawpbm image Synopsis bbox [-l] [-r] [-h] [-V] [rawpbmfile]Descriptionbbox reads a rawppm or rawpbm file and prints out the bounding box of the image (as postscript comment and in postscript points, i.e. 1/72dpi) as well as the high resolution bounding box. Input is read…
bbl2bib.pl – convert thebibliography environment to a bib file Synopsisbbl2bib.pl [-d] [-u] [-o output] file Options[-d] Send debugging output to stdout -o output Output file. If this option is not used, the name for the output file is formed by changing the extension to ".bib" -u Do not clean URL fields. Normally "bbl2bib" recognizes URL…
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…