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.
acpidump – ACPI table dump utility Synopsisacpidump [<option>…] DescriptionThis manual page briefly documents the acpidump command. The option list is taken from the interactive help. The acpidump command extracts the ACPI tables currently in use from the running kernel in a form usable for later processing by the acpixtract command. Invocation of acpidump without parameters…
acpibin – ACPI binary AML file utility Synopsisacpibin [<option>…] DescriptionThis manual page briefly documents the acpibin command. The option list is taken from the acpibin interactive help. acpibin is a command provided to perform some basic and common operations on AML binary files. Much more detailed documentation may be found at http://www.acpica.org/documentation/. Options-c <file1> <file2>…
acpi_available – test whether ACPI subsystem is available Synopsisacpi_available Descriptionacpi_available checks whether the ACPI ("Advanced Configuration and Power Interface") subsystem is available, as evidenced by the presence of the /proc/acpi directory. OptionsNone. Exit Status0 (true) ACPI subsystem is available 1 (false) ACPI subsystem is not available 2 usage error (arguments supplied)Files/proc/acpi ACPI status information fileAuthorThis…
acpi – Shows battery status and other ACPI information Synopsisacpi [options] Descriptionacpi Shows information from the /proc or the /sys filesystem, such as battery status or thermal information. Options-b | –battery show battery information -a | –ac-adapter show ac adapter information -t | –thermal show thermal information -c | –cooling show cooling device information -V…
aconnect – ALSA sequencer connection manager Synopsisaconnect [-d] [-options] sender receiver aconnect -i|-o [-options] aconnect -x Descriptionaconnect is a utility to connect and disconnect two existing ports on ALSA sequencer system. The ports with the arbitrary subscription permission, such as created by aseqview(1), can be connected to any (MIDI) device ports using aconnect. For example,…
aclocal – manual page for aclocal 1.16.5 Synopsisaclocal [,OPTION/]… DescriptionGenerate ‘aclocal.m4’ by scanning ‘configure.ac’ or ‘configure.in’ Options–automake-acdir=,DIR/ directory holding automake-provided m4 files –system-acdir=,DIR/ directory holding third-party system-wide files –diff[=,COMMAND/] run COMMAND [diff -u] on M4 files that would be changed (implies –install and –dry-run) –dry-run pretend to, but do not actually update any file –force…
aclocal – manual page for aclocal 1.13.4 Synopsisaclocal [OPTION]… DescriptionGenerate ‘aclocal.m4’ by scanning ‘configure.ac’ or ‘configure.in’ Options–automake-acdir=DIR directory holding automake-provided m4 files –system-acdir=DIR directory holding third-party system-wide files –diff[=COMMAND] run COMMAND [diff -u] on M4 files that would be changed (implies –install and –dry-run) –dry-run pretend to, but do not actually update any file –force…
aclocal – manual page for aclocal 1.16.5 Synopsisaclocal [,OPTION/]… DescriptionGenerate ‘aclocal.m4’ by scanning ‘configure.ac’ or ‘configure.in’ Options–automake-acdir=,DIR/ directory holding automake-provided m4 files –system-acdir=,DIR/ directory holding third-party system-wide files –diff[=,COMMAND/] run COMMAND [diff -u] on M4 files that would be changed (implies –install and –dry-run) –dry-run pretend to, but do not actually update any file –force…
aclocal – manual page for aclocal 1.15.1 Synopsisaclocal [,OPTION/]… DescriptionGenerate ‘aclocal.m4’ by scanning ‘configure.ac’ or ‘configure.in’ Options–automake-acdir=,DIR/ directory holding automake-provided m4 files –system-acdir=,DIR/ directory holding third-party system-wide files –diff[=,COMMAND/] run COMMAND [diff -u] on M4 files that would be changed (implies –install and –dry-run) –dry-run pretend to, but do not actually update any file –force…
aclocal – manual page for aclocal 1.13.4 Synopsisaclocal [OPTION]… DescriptionGenerate ‘aclocal.m4’ by scanning ‘configure.ac’ or ‘configure.in’ Options–automake-acdir=DIR directory holding automake-provided m4 files –system-acdir=DIR directory holding third-party system-wide files –diff[=COMMAND] run COMMAND [diff -u] on M4 files that would be changed (implies –install and –dry-run) –dry-run pretend to, but do not actually update any file –force…
ack – grep-like text finder Synopsis ack [options] PATTERN [FILE…] ack -f [options] [DIRECTORY…]DescriptionAck is designed as a replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. Ack searches the named input FILEs (or standard input if no files are named, or the file name – is given) for lines containing a match to the given…
achfile – change type and/or creator of Apple Macintosh files (netatalk format) Synopsis achfile [-t type] [-c creator] file…Descriptionachfile changes the Macintosh type and/or creator of the file arguments which have a corresponding .AppleDouble file. Options-t type change the type. -c creator change the creator. Diagnosticsreturns exit status 0 if all files changed successfully See Alsoafile(1), afpd(8)
acheck – Check common localization mistakes Synopsisacheck [OPTIONS] [INPUT_FILE] DescriptionThis program parses a file checking for syntax rules and optionally asking Aspell for checking word spelling. It makes fix suggestions and outputs a corrected file accordingly adding review comments if requested. It tries to find the file type according to the extension or the first…
ac – print statistics about users’ connect time Synopsisac [ -d | –daily-totals ] [ -y | –print-year ] [ -p | –individual-totals ] [ people ] [ -f | –file filename ] [ -a | –all-days ] [ –complain ] [ –reboots ] [ –supplants ] [ –timewarps ] [ –compatibility ] [ –tw-leniency…
abxtest – double-blind ABX comparison testing script Synopsisabxtest [-n min] [-m max] [-g goal] A-cmd B-cmd Descriptionabxtest is a tool for conducting listening (or other subjective) tests to determine whether a listener can discern a difference between two subjects under test, denoted A and B. The listener conducts several trials in which an unknown subject,…
abw2text – convert AbiWord document into plain text Synopsisabw2text [OPTION] <AbiWord Document> Options–info Display document metadata instead of the text –help Shows this help message –version Output abw2text version
abw2raw – debug the conversion library Synopsisabw2raw [OPTION] <AbiWord Document> Options–callgraph Display the call graph nesting level –help Shows this help message –version Output abw2raw version
abw2html – convert AbiWord document into HTML Synopsisabw2html [OPTION] <AbiWord Document> Options–help Shows this help message –version Output abw2html version
abs2rel – convert absolute path to relative path Synopsisabs2rel path base DescriptionThe abs2rel command takes exactly two arguments – a destination path and a base path. It determines relative path from the base path to the destination path and prints it on standard output. Examplesabs2rel /1/2/3/a/b/c /1/2/3 will print a/b/c on standard output. abs2rel foo/bar…
abrt-watch-log – Watch log file and run command when it grows or is replaced Synopsisabrt-watch-log [-vs] [-F STR] … FILE PROG [ARGS] Options-F STR Don’t run PROG if STRs aren’t found -v, –verbose Be more verbose. Can be given multiple times. -s Log to syslog FILE Watched file PROG Path to an executable ARGS Arguments…