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.
NAME whisper-fetch – extract records from a whisper database SYNOPSYS whisper-fetch [options] path DESCRIPTION This command retrieves records from a whisper fixed-size database. The options are described below. OPTIONS –from Unix epoch time of the beginning of your requested interval (default: 24 hours ago). –until Unix epoch time of the end of your requested interval…
NAME whisper-dump – dump whisper database files SYNOPSYS whisper-dump path DESCRIPTION This command dumps an whisper database file. The options are described below. OPTIONS -h, –help Show the embedded help. AUTHOR whisper is a fixed size database, created by Chris Davis. This manual page was written by Jonas Genannt <jonas.genannt [at] capi2name.de>, for the Debian…
NAME whisper-create – create a whisper database SYNOPSYS whisper-create path secondsPerPoint:pointsToStore [secondsPerPoint:pointsToStore]* DESCRIPTION This command creates a new whisper fixed-size database. For each database you specify one or more pairs of numbers describing how data points should be archived in this database. The first part of the pair is the precision, the second part of…
NAME whirlpoolsum – compute and check WHIRLPOOL message digest SYNOPSIS whirlpoolsum [OPTION]… [FILE]… DESCRIPTION Print or check WHIRLPOOL (512-bit) checksums. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. -b, –binary read in binary mode -c, –check read WHIRLPOOL sums from the FILEs and check them –tag create a BSD-style checksum, always in…
NAME md5deep – Compute and compare MD5 message digests sha1deep – Compute and compare SHA-1 message digests sha256deep – Compute and compare SHA-256 message digests sha3deep – Compute and compare SHA-3-256 message digests tigerdeep – Compute and compare Tiger message digests whirlpooldeep – Compute and compare Whirlpool message digests SYNOPSIS md5deep -v | -V |…
NAME whiptail – display dialog boxes from shell scripts SYNOPSIS whiptail [ –title title ] [ –backtitle backtitle ] [ –clear ] [ –default-item string ] [ –defaultno ] [ –fb ] [ –nocancel ] [ –yes-button text ] [ –no-button text ] [ –ok-button text ] [ –cancel-button text ] [ –noitem [ ]…
NAME whichman – show the location of a man page using a fault tolerant approximate matching algorithm SYNOPSIS whichman [-#ehIp][-t#] man-page-name DESCRIPTION whichman is a "which" alike search command for man pages. whichman searches the MANPATH environment variable. If this variable is not defined, then it uses /usr/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man: /usr/local/share/man:/usr/local/man by default. Unlike "which" this program…
NAME which – locate a command SYNOPSIS which [-a] filename … DESCRIPTION which returns the pathnames of the files (or links) which would be executed in the current environment, had its arguments been given as commands in a strictly POSIX-conformant shell. It does this by searching the PATH for executable files matching the names of…
which – locate a command Synopsis which [-a] filename … Description which returns the pathnames of the files (or links) which would be executed in the current environment, had its arguments been given as commands in a strictly POSIX-conformant shell. It does this by searching the PATH for executable files matching the names of the…
NAME whereis – locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command SYNOPSIS whereis [options] [-BMS directory… -f] name… DESCRIPTION whereis locates the binary, source and manual files for the specified command names. The supplied names are first stripped of leading pathname components. Prefixes of s. resulting from use of source code control…
NAME whereami-1.0 – displays work location SYNOPSIS whereamiR [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION whereami displays information about the machine(location) you are working on. Information like terminal name, present working directory, host name, and the host IP address. This is extremely useful for those who tend to work remotely on several machines at the same time. OPTIONS -d –dir…
NAME whatsup – list up and/or down nodes in a cluster SYNOPSIS whatsup [OPTION]… [NODES]… DESCRIPTION whatsup lists which nodes are currently up or down in a cluster. It determines which nodes are up or down based on information provided by the nodeupdown(3) library. Configuration of backend components or clusterlists for the nodeupdown(3) library may…
NAME whatnow – prompting front-end for sending messages SYNOPSIS whatnow [-draftfolder +folder] [-draftmessage msg] [-nodraftfolder] [-editor editor] [-noedit] [-prompt string] [file] [-version] [-help] DESCRIPTION Whatnow is the default program that queries the user about the disposition of a composed draft. It is normally automatically invoked by one of the nmh commands comp, dist, forw, or…
NAME whatis – display one-line manual page descriptions SYNOPSIS whatis [-dlv?V] [-r|-w] [-s list] [-m system[,…]] [-M path] [-L locale] [-C file] name … DESCRIPTION Each manual page has a short description available within it. whatis searches the manual page names and displays the manual page descriptions of any name matched. name may contain wildcards…
NAME wftopfa – Convert a Wadalab base font to Postscript .PFA (or .PFB) format using ghostscript SYNOPSIS wftopfa fontname DESCRIPTION This script invokes gs(1) to convert a Wadalab base font to Postscript .PFA (or .PFB) format. SEE ALSO gs(1) VERSION This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.07. AUTHOR Artifex Software, Inc. are the…
NAME wflinfo – a utility for printing OpenGL or OpenGL ES driver information SYNOPSIS wflinfo –platform=platform –api=api [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION wflinfo is utility which creates an OpenGL or OpenGL ES context using the waffle library and prints information about the context. REQUIRED PARAMETERS -p platform –platform=platform Where platform is android, cgl, gbm, glx, wayland, wgl, or…
NAME westcos-tool – utility for manipulating data structure on westcos smart card and similar security tokens SYNOPSIS westcos-tool [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION The westcos-tool utility is used to manipulate the westcos data structures on 2 Ko smart cards. Users can create PINs, keys and certificates stored on the token. User PIN authentication is performed for those operations…
NAME wesside-ng – crack a WEP key of an open network without user intervention SYNOPSIS wesside-ng <options> DESCRIPTION wesside-ng is an auto-magic tool which incorporates a number of techniques to seamlessly obtain a WEP key in minutes. It first identifies a network, then proceeds to associate with it, obtain PRGA (pseudo random generation algorithm) xor…
NAME weplab – Wireless WEP encryption security analyzer SYNOPSIS weplab {-a | -r | -b | -y | -c} [options] {pcap file} DESCRIPTION weplab is a tool to review the security of WEP encryption in wireless networks from an educational point of view. Several attacks are available (including advanced statistical attacks) so it can be…
NAME weechat – the extensible chat client SYNOPSIS weechat[-a | –no – connect][-d | –dir<path>][-p | –no – plugin][-r | –run – command<command>][-s | –no – script][–upgrade] [plugin:option…] weechat[-c | –colors] weechat[-h | –help] weechat[-l | –license] weechat[-v | –version] DESCRIPTION WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a free chat client, fast and light,…