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.
pldd – display dynamic shared objects linked into a process Synopsispldd pid pldd optionDescriptionThe pldd command displays a list of the dynamic shared objects (DSOs) that are linked into the process with the specified process ID (PID). The list includes the libraries that have been dynamically loaded using dlopen(3). Options-?, –help Display a help message…
playdv – display digital video streams on screen Synopsisplaydv [ options ] file Descriptionplaydv reads in DV-encoded video data from file and displays it on screen. -v, –version show playdv version number. –disable-audio skip audio decoding. –disable-video skip video decoding. -n, –num-frames=count stop playing after count frames. –dump-frames=pattern save a PPM image of each frame…
latex, pdflatex, xelatex, lualatex, dvilualatex, cslatex, pdfcslatex, platex, uplatex, lamed – structured text formatting and typesetting Synopsislatex [first-line] DescriptionThis manual page is a mere skeleton. The LaTeX language is described in the book LaTeX – A Document Preparation System. LaTeX is a TeX macro package, not a modification to the TeX source program, so all…
latex-dev, pdflatex-dev, xelatex-dev, lualatex-dev, dvilualatex-dev, platex-dev, uplatex-dev – release candidate LaTeX testing Synopsislatex-dev [first-line] DescriptionThese -dev executables are intended for testing upcoming LaTeX2e kernel changes. They correspond to new formats which have been tested by the LaTeX team for stability and usability. Thus, they are not arbitrary development snapshots; more like release candidates. Wider testing…
plasmapkg2 – Install, list, remove Plasma packages Synopsis plasmapkg2 [–hash path] [-g, –global] [-t, –type type] [-i, –install path] [-s, –show name] [-u, –upgrade path] [-l, –list] [–list-types] [-r, –remove name] [-p, –packageroot path]Descriptionplasmapkg2 is a command line tool to install, list, remove Plasma packages. Options–hash path Generate a SHA1 hash for the package at…
plasmapkg – Install, list, remove Plasma packages Synopsis plasmapkg [-h, –hash path] [-g, –global] [-t, –type type] [-i, –install path] [-u, –upgrade path] [-l, –list] [–list-types] [-r, –remove name] [-p, –packageroot path] [KDE Generic Options] [Qt Generic Options]Descriptionplasmapkg is a command line tool to install, list, remove Plasma packages. Options-h, –hash path Generate a SHA1…
plasmaengineexplorer – Provides direct access to plasma data engines Synopsis plasmaengineexplorer [–height pixels] [–width pixels] [-x pixels] [-y pixels] [–engine name] [–source name] [–interval ms] plasmaengineexplorer [KDE Generic Options] [Qt Generic Options] Descriptionplasmaengineexplorer is a graphical tool allowing developers to test Plasma data engines without writing a Plasma applet. If no options are given, it…
Plank – Stupidly simple. Synopsisplank [options] Options-d –debug Enable debug level loggingHomepageFor more information, please visit http://launchpad.net/plank/ AuthorsRobert Dyer <psybers [at] gmail.com>, Daniel Foré <daniel.p.fore [at] gmail.com>, Rico Tzschichholz <ricotz [at] t-online.de>
plackup – Run PSGI application with Plack servers Synopsis # read your app from app.psgi file plackup # choose .psgi file from ARGV[0] (or with -a option) plackup hello.psgi # switch server implementation with –server (or -s) plackup –server HTTP::Server::Simple –port 9090 –host 127.0.0.1 test.psgi # use UNIX socket to run FCGI daemon plackup -s…
pl2pm – Rough tool to translate Perl4 .pl files to Perl5 .pm modules. Synopsispl2pm files Descriptionpl2pm is a tool to aid in the conversion of Perl4-style .pl library files to Perl5-style library modules. Usually, your old .pl file will still work fine and you should only use this tool if you plan to update your…
pktype – verify and translate a packed font bitmap file to plain text Synopsispktype pk_file[pk] DescriptionThis manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation. The pktype program translates a packed font file (pk) (output…
pkttyagent – Textual authentication helper Synopsis pkttyagent [–version] [–help] pkttyagent [–process { pid | pid,pid-start-time } | –system-bus-name busname] [–notify-fd fd] [–fallback]Descriptionpkttyagent is used to start a textual authentication agent for the subject specified by either –process or –system-bus-name. If neither of these options are given, the parent process is used. To get notified when the authentication agent has been registered either…
pktopbm – convert packed (PK) format font into PBM Synopsispktopbm pkfile[.pk] [ -x width ] [ -y height ] [-c num] pbmfile … DescriptionThis program is part of Netpbm(1) pktopbm reads a packed (PK) font file as input, and produces PBM images as output. If the filename ‘-‘ is used for any of the filenames,…
pktogf – convert packed font files to generic font files Synopsispktogf [-v] pk_file_name [gf_file_name] DescriptionThis manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation. The pktogf program converts a packed font file (pk) to a…
pkmon – PackageKit console client Synopsis pkmon [search] [debug install] [remove]DescriptionThis manual page documents briefly the pkmon command. pkmon is the command line client for PackageKit. Return Values0 Success 1 Failed with miscellaneous internal error.See Alsopkcon (1). The programs are documented fully on http://www.packagekit.org. AuthorThis manual page was written by Richard Hughes <richard [at] hughsie.com>….
pklogin_finder – maps certificates into a user Syntaxpklogin_finder [debug] [config_file=<filename>] Descriptionpklogin_finder uses the pam_pkcs11 library infrastructure to interactively map a PKCS#11 provided certificate to a user. pklogin_finder uses the the same configuration file and arguments than pam_pkcs11(8) PAM module. Load defined mapper modules, and try to find a map between found certificates and a user…
pkillall – kill all running applications on a PDA Synopsispkillall [-d LEVEL] [-p DEVNAME] [-h] Descriptionpkillall stops all running applications on a device connected through SynCE to the time on the local computer. This tool must be run as the same user as the dccmd daemon. Options-d LEVEL Set debug log level: 0 – No…
pgrep, pkill, pidwait – look up, signal, or wait for processes based on name and other attributes Synopsispgrep [options] pattern pkill [options] pattern pidwait [options] pattern Descriptionpgrep looks through the currently running processes and lists the process IDs which match the selection criteria to stdout. All the criteria have to match. For example, $ pgrep…
pkidaemon – provides status management of PKI instances Synopsispkidaemon {start|status} [instance-name]Note: Although this tool currently resides in the /usr/bin directory, proper use of it requires it to be run with super user privileges. DescriptionThe pkidaemon command with the ‘status’ argument provides a way to display the status of all existing PKI instances on a machine….
pki – Command-Line Interface for accessing Certificate System services. Synopsispki [CLI options] <command> [command arguments] DescriptionThe pki command provides a command-line interface allowing clients to access various services on the Certificate System server. These services include certificates, groups, keys, security domains, and users. Cli Options-c <client security database password> Specifies the client security database…