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 usleep – sleep some number of microseconds SYNOPSIS usleep [number] DESCRIPTION usleep sleeps some number of microseconds. The default is 1. OPTIONS –usage Show short usage message. –help, -? Print help information. -v, –version Print version information. BUGS Probably not accurate on many machines down to the microsecond. Count on precision only to -4…
NAME users – print the user names of users currently logged in to the current host SYNOPSIS users [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/] DESCRIPTION Output who is currently logged in according to FILE. If FILE is not specified, use ,/var/run/utmp/. ,/var/log/wtmp/ as FILE is common. –help display this help and exit –version output version information and exit AUTHOR…
NAME users-admin – Users Administration Tool SYNOPSIS users-admin [OPTION…] DESCRIPTION users-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, a set of tools to easily access and manage system configuration. users-admin allows you add, delete and modify the existing users and groups in your system. OPTIONS users-admin accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options. AUTHORS users-admin…
NAME userpasswd – A graphical tool to allow users to change their passwords. SYNOPSIS userpasswd [ options ] DESCRIPTION userpasswd is a graphical tool to allow users to easily change their passwords. Aside from being a nice GUI frontend, this program does the right thing when the pam configuration has changed. OPTIONS This program has…
NAME usermount – A graphical tool to mount, unmount and format filesystems. SYNOPSIS usermount [ options ] userformat [ options ] device DESCRIPTION usermount is a graphical tool to allow users to easily manage removable media, such as floppy disks or zip disks. When the tool starts up, it scans /etc/fstab for all filesystems that…
NAME userinfo – A graphical equivilient to chfn. SYNOPSIS userinfo [ options ] DESCRIPTION userinfo is a graphical tool to allow users to conveniently change their finger information. OPTIONS This program has no command line options of its own, but it does take the standard X program options like -display and such. See the X(1)…
NAME use-devel-checklib – a script to package Devel::CheckLib with your code. DESCRIPTION This script, when run in the directory in which your shiny new module lives, will bundle Devel::CheckLib in the "inc" directory, and update your Makefile.PL (or Build.PL) appropriately. If neither exists, it will create a Makefile.PL. SYNOPSIS use-devel-checklib list of libraries WARNINGS, BUGS…
NAME usbredirserver – exporting an USB device for use from another (virtual) machine SYNOPSIS usbredirserver [-p|–port <port>] [-v|–verbose <0-5>] <usbbus-usbaddr|vendorid:prodid> DESCRIPTION usbredirserver is a small standalone server for exporting an USB device for use from another (virtual) machine through the usbredir protocol. You can specify the USB device to export either by USB id in…
NAME usbmuxd – Expose a socket to multiplex connections from and to iOS devices. SYNOPSIS usbmuxd [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION usbmuxd stands for "USB multiplexing daemon". This daemon is in charge of multiplexing connections over USB to an iOS device. To users, it means you can sync your music, contacts, photos, etc. over USB. To developers, it…
NAME usbguard — USBGuard command-line interface SYNOPSIS usbguard [OPTIONS] command [COMMAND-OPTIONS] … usbguard list-devices usbguard allow-device <id> usbguard block-device <id> usbguard reject-device <id> usbguard list-rules usbguard append-rule <rule> usbguard remove-rule <id> usbguard generate-policy usbguard watch usbguard read-descriptor <file> DESCRIPTION The usbguard command provides a command-line interface (CLI) to the usbguard-daemon(8) instance and provides a tool for generating initial USBGuard policies. SUBCOMMANDS list-devices List all…
NAME usbguard-applet-qt — USBGuard Qt applet SYNOPSIS usbguard-applet-qt DESCRIPTION USBGuard Qt applet for interaction with the USBGuard daemon. OPTIONS There are currently no options available. SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS The applet uses the USBGuard public IPC interface to talk to the daemon component. Depending on your distribution defaults, the access to this interface is limited to a…
NAME usb_modeswitch_dispatcher – Linux wrapper for usb_modeswitch (not intended for direct invocation) SYNOPSIS usb_modeswitch_dispatcher DESCRIPTION usb_modeswitch_dispatcher will do detailed device checking and will subsequently use the Linux-independent usb_modeswitch binary together with the selected device config file to switch the mode of certain USB devices. If no drivers are taking care of the device after the…
NAME usb_modeswitch – control the mode of ‘multi-state’ USB devices SYNOPSIS usb_modeswitch [-heWQDIvpVPmM23rwKdHSOBGTNALnsRiuagft] [-c filename] DESCRIPTION Several new USB devices have their proprietary Windows drivers onboard, most of them WWAN and WLAN dongles. When plugged in for the first time, they act like a flash storage and start installing the Windows driver from there. If…
NAME usb-devices – print USB device details SYNOPSIS usb-devices DESCRIPTION usb-devices is a shell script that can be used to display details of USB buses in the system and the devices connected to them. The output of the script is similar to the usb/devices file available either under /proc/bus (if usbfs is mounted), or under…
NAME urxvtd – urxvt terminal daemon SYNOPSIS urxvtd [-q|–quiet] [-o|–opendisplay] [-f|–fork] [-m|–mlock] [-e|–eval perlstring] urxvtd -q -o -f # for .xsession use DESCRIPTION This manpage describes the urxvtd daemon, which is the same vt102 terminal emulator as urxvt, but runs as a daemon that can open multiple terminal windows within the same process. You can…
NAME urxvtc – control the urxvtd daemon SYNOPSIS urxvtc [same options as for urxvt] DESCRIPTION This manpage describes the urxvtc client program. It connects to the urxvtd daemon and requests a new terminal window. It takes the same arguments as the urxvt program. The environment will also be respected. Currently, it always returns immediately after…
NAME urxvt256cd – urxvt256c terminal daemon SYNOPSIS urxvt256cd [-q|–quiet] [-o|–opendisplay] [-f|–fork] [-m|–mlock] [-e|–eval perlstring] urxvt256cd -q -o -f # for .xsession use DESCRIPTION This manpage describes the urxvt256cd daemon, which is the same vt102 terminal emulator as urxvt256c, but runs as a daemon that can open multiple terminal windows within the same process. You can…
NAME urxvt256cc – control the urxvt256cd daemon SYNOPSIS urxvt256cc [same options as for urxvt256c] DESCRIPTION This manpage describes the urxvt256cc client program. It connects to the urxvt256cd daemon and requests a new terminal window. It takes the same arguments as the urxvt256c program. The environment will also be respected. Currently, it always returns immediately after…
NAME rxvt-unicode (ouR XVT, unicode) – (a VT102 emulator for the X window system) SYNOPSIS urxvt256c [options] [-e command [ args ]] DESCRIPTION rxvt-unicode, version 9.21, is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm(1) replacement for users who do not require features such as Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability. As a result,…
NAME xim-onthespot – implement XIM "on-the-spot" behaviour DESCRIPTION This perl extension implements OnTheSpot editing. It does not work perfectly, and some input methods don’t seem to work well with OnTheSpot editing in general, but it seems to work at least for SCIM and kinput2. You enable it by specifying this extension and a preedit style…