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 virt-alignment-scan – Check alignment of virtual machine partitions SYNOPSIS virt – alignment – scan[–options] – d domname virt – alignment – scan[–options] – a disk.img[-a disk.img…] virt – alignment – scan[–options] DESCRIPTION When older operating systems install themselves, the partitioning tools place partitions at a sector misaligned with the underlying storage (commonly the first…
NAME virt-admin – daemon administration interface SYNOPSIS virt-admin [OPTION]… [COMMAND_STRING] virt-admin [OPTION]… COMMAND [ARG]… DESCRIPTION The virt-admin program is the main administration interface for modifying the libvirt daemon configuration at runtime, changing daemon behaviour as well as for monitoring and managing all clients connected to the daemon. The basic structure of most virt-admin usage is:…
NAME virsh – management user interface SYNOPSIS virsh [OPTION]… [COMMAND_STRING] virsh [OPTION]… COMMAND [ARG]… DESCRIPTION The virsh program is the main interface for managing virsh guest domains. The program can be used to create, pause, and shutdown domains. It can also be used to list current domains. Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with…
NAME vipe – edit pipe SYNOPSIS command1 | vipe | command2 DESCRIPTION vipe allows you to run your editor in the middle of a unix pipeline and edit the data that is being piped between programs. Your editor will have the full data being piped from command1 loaded into it, and when you close it,…
NAME vinagre – a remote desktop viewer for the GNOME Desktop SYNOPSYS vinagre [OPTIONS] [server][::port|:display] DESCRIPTION vinagre is a remote desktop viewer for the GNOME desktop. It can support many protocols using a plugin system. Current plugins exist for VNC and SSH. Vinagre has many features, among others:. – Support for multiple connections simultaneously –…
NAME vim – Vi IMproved, a programmer’s text editor SYNOPSIS vim [options] [file ..] vim [options] – vim [options] -t tag vim [options] -q [errorfile] ex gex view gvim gview vimx evim eview rvim rview rgvim rgview DESCRIPTION Vim is a text editor that is upwards compatible to Vi. It can be used to edit…
NAME vimtutor – the Vim tutor SYNOPSIS vimtutor [-g] [language] DESCRIPTION Vimtutor starts the Vim tutor. It copies the tutor file first, so that it can be modified without changing the original file. The Vimtutor is useful for people that want to learn their first Vim commands. The optional argument -g starts vimtutor with gvim…
NAME vimdot – Combined text editor and dot viewer SYNOPSIS vimdot [file] DESCRIPTION vimdot is a simple script which launches the gvim or vim editor along with a GUI window showing the dot output of the edited file. The dot output window automatically refreshes everytime the file is saved in the editor. If no filename…
NAME vimdiff – edit between two and eight versions of a file with Vim and show differences SYNOPSIS vimdiff [options] file1 file2 [file3 [file4 [file5 [file6 [file7 [file8]]]]]] gvimdiff DESCRIPTION Vimdiff starts Vim on two up to eight files. Each file gets its own window. The differences between the files are highlighted. This is a…
NAME vim – Vi IMproved, a programmer’s text editor SYNOPSIS vim [options] [file ..] vim [options] – vim [options] -t tag vim [options] -q [errorfile] ex view gvim gview evim eview rvim rview rgvim rgview DESCRIPTION Vim is a text editor that is upwards compatible to Vi. It can be used to edit all kinds…
NAME vile, xvile, uxvile, lxvile – VI Like Emacs SYNOPSIS vile [@cmdfile] [+command] [-FhIiRVv] [-gNNN] [-kcryptkey] [-spattern] [-ttag] [filename]… DESCRIPTION vile is a text editor. This man page is fairly terse. More information can be obtained from the internal help, available with the -h option or by using the ":help" command from within vile. xvile…
NAME vig_optimize – Optimise photometric parameters SYNOPSIS vig_optimize [options] -o output.pto input.pto DESCRIPTION Photometric calculation can be performed on the command-line with the vig_optimize tool. This functionally is configured via ‘v’ variable lines in the .pto project file in a similar way to the autooptimiser tool: The camera response curve is simplified using the EMoR…
NAME viewres – graphical class browser for Xt SYNOPSIS viewres [-option …] DESCRIPTION The viewres program displays a tree showing the widget class hierarchy of the Athena Widget Set. Each node in the tree can be expanded to show the resources that the corresponding class adds (i.e. does not inherit from its parent) when a…
NAME viewgar – GiNaC archive file viewer SYNPOSIS viewgar [-d] [file…] DESCRIPTION viewgar displays the contents of GiNaC archive files. By default it will print the archived expressions in standard mathematical notation. If given the -d option it will output a raw dump of the archive contents). OPTIONS -d print raw dump of archive instead…
NAME viewfax – display fax files in an X11 window SYNOPSIS viewfax [-fnluirvW24] [-hheight] [-wwidth] [-zzoom] [-ddisplay] [-gwxh+x+y] [-bbell] [-mmemory] filename… DESCRIPTION viewfax displays one or more fax files in an X11 window. The input files may be either raw, single-page faxes received by a fax modem with a program such as mgetty(1), or tiff…
NAME vim – Vi IMproved, a programmer’s text editor SYNOPSIS vim [options] [file ..] vim [options] – vim [options] -t tag vim [options] -q [errorfile] ex view gvim gview evim eview rvim rview rgvim rgview DESCRIPTION Vim is a text editor that is upwards compatible to Vi. It can be used to edit all kinds…
NAME vidir – edit directories and filenames SYNOPSIS vidir [–verbose] [directory|file|–]… DESCRIPTION vidir allows editing of directories and filenames in a text editor. If no directory is specified, the filenames of the current directory are edited. When editing a directory, each item in the directory will appear on its own numbered line. These numbers are…
NAME vidalia – Controller GUI for tor SYNOPSIS vidalia [options] DESCRIPTION Vidalia allows you to start and stop Tor, view the status of Tor at a glance, and monitor Tor’s bandwidth usage. Vidalia also makes it easy to contribute to the Tor network by helping you setup a Tor server, if you wish. To find…
NAME vim – Vi IMproved, a programmer’s text editor SYNOPSIS vim [options] [file ..] vim [options] – vim [options] -t tag vim [options] -q [errorfile] ex view gvim gview evim eview rvim rview rgvim rgview DESCRIPTION Vim is a text editor that is upwards compatible to Vi. It can be used to edit all kinds…
NAME vgdb – intermediary between Valgrind and GDB or a shell SYNOPSIS vgdb [options] DESCRIPTION vgdb ("Valgrind to GDB") is used as an intermediary between Valgrind and GDB or a shell. It has two usage modes: 1. As a standalone utility, it is used from a shell command line to send monitor commands to a…