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NAME pilot-addresses – Read and write address book databases to and from a Palm handheld. SECTION pilot-link: Userland conduits LOCATION ./src SYNOPSIS  pilot-addresses [-p|–port <port>] [–version] [-?|–help] [–usage] [-q|–quiet] [–delete-all] [-t|–delimiter  INT] [-d|–delete-category   category  ] [-c|–category  category] [-a|–augment] [-r|–read  file] [-w|–write   file  ] [-C|–human-readable] DESCRIPTION  pilot-addresses allows the user to read all entries from a Palm handheld such as those made by Palm, Handspring, Handera, TRGPro, Sony or other Palm handheld in the Palm Address Book application, write new entries into the database,…

NAME pigz, unpigz – compress or expand files SYNOPSIS pigz [ -cdfhikKlLmMnNqrRtz0..9,11 ] [ -b blocksize ] [ -p threads ] [ -S suffix ] [ name … ] unpigz [ -cfhikKlLmMnNqrRtz ] [ -b blocksize ] [ -p threads ] [ -S suffix ] [ name … ] DESCRIPTION Pigz compresses using threads to…

NAME pgrep, pkill, pidwait – look up, signal, or wait for processes based on name and other attributes SYNOPSIS pgrep [options] pattern pkill [options] pattern pidwait [options] pattern DESCRIPTION pgrep 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…

NAME pidstat – Report statistics for Linux tasks. SYNOPSIS pidstat [ -d ] [ -H ] [ -h ] [ -I ] [ -l ] [ -R ] [ -r ] [ -s ] [ -t ] [ -U [ username ] ] [ -u ] [ -V ] [ -v ] [ -w ]…

NAME pidof — find the process ID of a running program. SYNOPSIS pidof [-s] [-c] [-x] [-o omitpid[,omitpid..]] [-o omitpid[,omitpid..]..] program [program..] DESCRIPTION Pidof finds the process id’s (pids) of the named programs. It prints those id’s on the standard output. OPTIONS -s Single shot – this instructs the program to only return one pid….

NAME pidl – An IDL compiler written in Perl SYNOPSIS pidl –help pidl [–outputdir[=OUTNAME]] [–includedir DIR…] [–parse-idl-tree] [–dump-idl-tree] [–dump-ndr-tree] [–header[=OUTPUT]] [–python[=OUTPUT]] [–ndr-parser[=OUTPUT]] [–client] [–server] [–warn-compat] [–quiet] [–verbose] [–template] [–ws-parser[=OUTPUT]] [–diff] [–dump-idl] [–tdr-parser[=OUTPUT]] [–samba3-ndr-client[=OUTPUT]] [–samba3-ndr-server[=OUTPUT]] [–typelib=[OUTPUT]] [<idlfile>.idl]… DESCRIPTION pidl is an IDL compiler written in Perl that aims to be somewhat compatible with the midl compiler….

NAME pidgin – Instant Messaging client SYNOPSIS pidgin [options] DESCRIPTION pidgin is a graphical modular messaging client based on libpurple which is capable of connecting to AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, XMPP, ICQ, IRC, SILC, Novell GroupWise, Lotus Sametime, Zephyr, Gadu-Gadu, and QQ all at once. It has many common features found in other clients, as well…

NAME picosat – Satisfiability (SAT) solver with proof and core support SYNOPSIS picosat [OPTION]… [FILE] DESCRIPTION PicoSAT is a satisfiability (SAT) solver for boolean variables in boolean expressions. A SAT solver can determine if it is possible to find assignments to boolean variables that would make a given set of expressions true. If it’s satisfiable,…

NAME piconv — iconv(1), reinvented in perl SYNOPSIS piconv[-f from_encoding][-t to_encoding] [-p | –perlqq | –htmlcref | –xmlcref][-C N | -c][-D][-S scheme] [-s string | file…] piconv – l piconv – r encoding_alias piconv – h DESCRIPTION piconv is perl version of iconv, a character encoding converter widely available for various Unixen today. This script…

NAME picomus – Minimal Unsatisfiable Core (MUS) generator SYNOPSIS picomus [OPTION]… [INPUT [OUTPUT]] DESCRIPTION PicoMUS is a satisfiability (SAT) solver that generates a minimal unsatisfiable core, using the PicoSAT library. OPTIONS -h print this command line option summary and exit -v enable verbose output If no input filename is given, or the input filename is…

NAME nano – Nano’s ANOther editor, inspired by Pico SYNOPSIS nano [options] [[+line[,column]] file]… nano [options] [[+[crCR](/|?)string] file]… DESCRIPTION nano is a small and friendly editor. It copies the look and feel of Pico, but is free software, and implements several features that Pico lacks, such as: opening multiple files, scrolling per line, undo/redo, syntax…

NAME pick – search for messages by content SYNOPSIS pick [+folder] [msgs] [-and …] [-or …] [-not …] [-lbrace … -rbrace] [–component pattern] [-cc pattern] [-date pattern] [-from pattern] [-search pattern] [-subject pattern] [-to pattern] [-after date] [-before date] [-datefield field] [-sequence name …] [-nosequence] [-public | -nopublic] [-zero | -nozero] [-list | -nolist] [-version]…

NAME pic2tpic – Convert pic files to tpic format SYNOPSIS pic2tpic [ files ] DESCRIPTION Pic2tpic reads the pic files given on the command line (or stdin if none are given) and writes their tpic equivalent to stdout. SEE ALSO tpic(1), fig2dev(1), transfig(1). COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1985 Supoj Sutantavibul Copyright (c) 1991 Micah Beck THE…

NAME pic2graph – convert a PIC diagram into a cropped image SYNOPSIS [ -unsafe ] [ -format output-format ] [ -eqn delimiters ] [convert-arguments] –help -v –version DESCRIPTION pic2graph reads a pic(1) program from the standard input and writes an image file, by default in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format, to the standard output. It…

NAME pic – compile pictures for troff or TeX SYNOPSIS [ -nvCSU ] [file …] -t [ -cvzCSU ] [file …] DESCRIPTION This manual page describes the GNU version of pic, which is part of the groff document formatting system. pic compiles descriptions of pictures embedded within troff or TeX input files into commands that…

NAME pia – play media files SYNOPSIS pia [ options ] movie DESCRIPTION pia is a small X11 tool which plays movie files. OPTIONS pia understands the usual toolkit options (-geometry + friends). Additional options are: -h display help text -v be verbose. -debug enable debug messages. -dsp <dev> Use OSS device <dev> for sound….

NAME pi3topbm – convert an Atari Degas .pi3 file into a portable bitmap SYNOPSIS pi3topbm [pi3file] DESCRIPTION Reads an Atari Degas .pi3 file as input. Produces a portable bitmap as output. SEE ALSO pbmtopi3(1), pbm(5), pi1toppm(1), ppmtopi1(1) AUTHOR Copyright (C) 1988 by David Beckemeyer (bdt!david) and Diomidis D. Spinellis. Index

NAME pi1toppm – convert an Atari Degas .pi1 into a portable pixmap SYNOPSIS pi1toppm [pi1file] DESCRIPTION Reads an Atari Degas .pi1 file as input. Produces a portable pixmap as output. SEE ALSO ppmtopi1(1), ppm(5), pi3topbm(1), pbmtopi3(1) AUTHOR Copyright (C) 1991 by Steve Belczyk (seb3 [at] gte.com) and Jef Poskanzer. Index

NAME pdftex – PDF output from TeX SYNOPSIS pdftex [options] [&format] [file|\commands] DESCRIPTION Run the pdfTeX typesetter on file, usually creating file.pdf. If the file argument has no extension, ".tex" will be appended to it. Instead of a filename, a set of pdfTeX commands can be given, the first of which must start with a…

NAME pdftex – PDF output from TeX SYNOPSIS pdftex [options] [&format] [file|\commands] DESCRIPTION Run the pdfTeX typesetter on file, usually creating file.pdf. If the file argument has no extension, ".tex" will be appended to it. Instead of a filename, a set of pdfTeX commands can be given, the first of which must start with a…