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.
shtool fixperm – GNU shtool file permission fixing command Synopsisshtool fixperm [-v|–verbose] [-t|–trace] path [path …] Descriptionshtool fixperm fixes file permissions inside a source tree under path by cleaning up the permission bits. It determines the cleaned up permission from the already set bits. It is intended to be run before a tarball is rolled…
shtool echo – GNU shtool echo(1) extensional command Synopsisshtool echo [-n|–newline] [-e|–expand] string Descriptionshtool echo is an echo(1) style command which prints string to stdout and optionally provides special expansion constructs (terminal bold mode, environment details, date, etc) and newline control. The trick of this command is that it provides a portable -n option and…
shtool arx – GNU shtool ar(1) extensional command Synopsisshtool arx [-t|–trace] [-C|–command cmd] op archive file [file …] Descriptionshtool arx is a wrapper around the archiving tool ar(1). It provides the ability to create archives out of existing archives, i.e., if one of file matches ""*.a"", the archive member files of file are used instead…
shrinkfile – shrink a file on a line boundary Synopsisshrinkfile [ -n ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -s size ] [ -v ] file… DescriptionThe shrinkfile program shrinks files to a given size if the size is larger than maxsize, preserving the data at the end of the file. Truncation is performed on line…
shred – overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it Synopsisshred [,OPTION/]… ,FILE/… DescriptionOverwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data. If FILE is -, shred standard output. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too….
showriff – show structure of RIFF files (wav, avi, …) Synopsisshowriff [ options ] filename Descriptionshowriff displays the structure of RIFF files. Common media files which use the RIFF format are wave-files and avi-movies. Options-h display help text -j try to decode mjpeg headers -e try to continue on errors.See Alsoc’t 11/1994, page 327 ff….
showrgb – display an rgb color-name database Synopsisshowrgb [ database ] DescriptionThe showrgb program reads an rgb color-name database from a text file and converts it back to source form, printing the result to standard output. The default database is the one that X was built with, and may be overridden on the command line….
showkey – examine the codes sent by the keyboard Synopsisshowkey [-h|–help] [-a|–ascii] [-s|–scancodes] [-k|–keycodes] [-V|–version] Descriptionshowkey prints to standard output either the scan codes or the keycode or the `ascii’ code of each key pressed. In the first two modes the program runs until 10 seconds have elapsed since the last key press or release…
showfont – font dumper for X font server Synopsisshowfont [ -options … ] -fn pattern DescriptionShowfont displays data about a font that matches the given pattern. The information shown includes font information, font properties, character metrics, and character bitmaps. The wildcard character "*" can be used to match any sequence of characters (including none) in…
showchar – show character with information Synopsisshowchar [ fontname ] [ charname ] DescriptionThis manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. showchar outputs PostScript to draw a character with metric info. AuthorCopyright (C) Angus J. C. Duggan 1991-1995 This manual page was written…
show – show (display) messages Synopsis show [+folder] [msgs] [-draft] [-showproc program] [-showmimeproc program] [-header | -noheader] [-checkmime | -nocheckmime] [switches for showproc or showmimeproc] [-version] [-help]DescriptionShow lists each of the specified messages to the standard output (typically, the terminal). By default, text (non-MIME) messages are filtered and displayed by the nmh command mhl. This…
show-installed – show installed RPM packages and descriptions Synopsisshow-installed [options] Descriptionshow-installed gives a compact description of the packages installed (or given) making use of the comps groups found in the repositories. Options-h, –help show this help message and exit -f FORMAT, –format=FORMAT yum, kickstart or human; yum gives the result as a yum command line;…
show-changed-rco – show changes in an RPM package Synopsisshow-changed-rco [options] Descriptionshow-changed-rco gives a compact description of the changes to a packages Requires, Conflicts and Obsoletes data from the installed (or old) to a specified rpm file. Options -h, –help show this help message and exit -C, –cache Tells repoquery to run entirely from YUM cache…
shotwell – Digital photo manager Synopsisshotwell [OPTION]… [FILE] DescriptionShotwell is a digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from disk or camera, organize them in various ways, view them in full-window or fullscreen mode, and export them to share with others. Options-h, –help Show help options -d,…
shortrpm – Short-circuit binary RPM package build Synopsisshortrpm [–bb ] [-–short-circuit ] [rpmbuild options ] Descriptionshortrpm tricks rpmbuild(1) into thinking certain scriptlets in SPEC file are empty, effectively skipping their run and proceeding to build the binary package from files from previous %install scriptlet run in BuildRoot. The trickery only takes place if both -bb…
shorten – CLI program to demonstrate use of WWW::Shorten Synopsis # Default shortening service is Metamark $ shorten books.perl.org/book/171 http://xrl.us/dv8 # Change with an environment variable $ SHORTEN_SERVICE=TinyURL shorten books.perl.org/book/171 http://tinyurl.com/ye7gjf4 # Change with command line option $ shorten –service=TinyURL books.perl.org/book/171 http://tinyurl.com/ye7gjf4 # Change using config file $ cat ~/.shortenrc service = TinyURL $ shorten…
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shmidcat – Copies stdin/file to a shared memory block for gtkwave(1) Syntaxshmidcat [VCDFILE] DescriptionCopies either the file specified at the command line or stdin (if no file specified) line by line to a shared memory block. stdout will contain a shared memory ID which should be passed on to gtkwave(1). ExamplesTo run this program the…
shlock – Create lock files for use in shell scripts Synopsisshlock [-b|-c|-u] -f name -p pid Descriptionshlock tries to create a lock file named name and write the process ID pid into it. If the file already exists, shlock will read the process ID from the file and test to see whether the process is…
shigofumi – ISDS client Synopsis shigofumi [-c FILE] shigofumi [-c FILE] -e COMMANDS shigofumi -VDescriptionShigofumi is an ISDS client based on libisds library. The client can access ISDS, processes local message and delivery details, and submit file to authorized conversion. Shigofumi is command line oriented program. Once you start it, use help to get list of embedded commands….