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.
bashbug – report a bug in bash Synopsis bashbug [–help] [–version] [bug-report-email-addresses]Descriptionbashbug is a utility for reporting bugs in Bash to the maintainers. bashbug will start up your preferred editor with a preformatted bug report template for you to fill in. Save the file and quit the editor once you have completed the missing fields….
basepods – print out pod paths for the standard perl manpages DescriptionThis program uses your configuration’s "installprivlib" directory to look up the full paths to those pod pages. Any files in that directory whose names end in ".pod" will be printed to the standard output, one per line. This is normally used in backticks to…
basenc – Encode/decode data and print to standard output Synopsisbasenc [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/] Descriptionbasenc encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. –base64 same as ‘base64’ program (RFC4648 section 4) –base64url file-…
basename – strip directory and suffix from filenames Synopsisbasename ,NAME /[,SUFFIX/] basename ,OPTION/… ,NAME/… DescriptionPrint NAME with any leading directory components removed. If specified, also remove a trailing SUFFIX. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -a, –multiple support multiple arguments and treat each as a NAME -s, –suffix=,SUFFIX/ remove a…
base64 – base64 encode/decode data and print to standard output Synopsisbase64 [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/] DescriptionBase64 encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -d, –decode decode data -i, –ignore-garbage when decoding, ignore…
base32 – base32 encode/decode data and print to standard output Synopsisbase32 [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/] DescriptionBase32 encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -d, –decode decode data -i, –ignore-garbage when decoding, ignore…
barrybackup – Barry Project’s backup program for the BlackBerry handheld Synopsisbarrybackup [-?][-d] Descriptionbarrybackup is a GUI application for backing up and restoring Blackberry handheld databases. The application allows for filtering of databases for both backup and restore, so not all databases need to be backed up at once, nor all restored. Backups and configuration files…
bareftp – graphical file transfer client Synopsisbareftp [OPTION] … DescriptionbareFTP is a graphical file transfer client supporting the FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). bareFTP is written in C#, targeting the Mono framework and the GNOME desktop environment. bareFTP is free and open source software released under the terms of…
barcode – a stand alone program to run the barcode library Synopsisbarcode [-b – | string] [-e encoding] [-o – | outfile] [ other-flags ] DescriptionThe information below is extracted from the texinfo file, which is the preferred source of information. The barcode program is a front-end to access some features of the library from…
baobab – A graphical disk usage analyzer for the GNOME desktop Synopsisbaobab [OPTIONS…] [DIRECTORY] Descriptionbaobab (a.k.a. Disk Usage Analyzer) is able to scan either specific folders (local and remote) or devices, in order to give the user a tree representation including each directory size or percentage in the branch. It also auto-detects any mounted/unmounted device….
Banshee – Media Management and Playback application Muinshee – Media Management and Playback application Synopsisbanshee [options…] [files|URIs…] muinshee [options…] [files|URIs…] DescriptionBanshee is an media management and playback application for the GNOME desktop, allowing users to import audio from CDs, search their library, create playlists of selections of their library, sync music to/from iPods and other…
bannergrab – a network service banner grabbing tool Synopsisbannergrab [options] host port Descriptionbannergrab performs connection, trigger and basic service information collection. There are basic banner grabbing modes, the first mode (the default one) sends triggers to the services and performs basic information collection. The second mode (–no-triggers), only connects to the service and returns the…
banner – prints a short string to the console in very large letters Synopsisbanner string DescriptionThis is a classic-style banner program similar to the one found in Solaris or AIX in the late 1990s. It prints a short string to the console in very large letters. Banners that do not fit in the terminal will…
Balsa – the GNOME email client. DescriptionYou can use Balsa to fetch, read, write and send e-mails. It supports * local mailboxes in maildir, mbox and/or mh format, * nested mailboxes, * protocols POP3, IMAP and SMTP, * multithreaded mail retrieval, * GnuPG/GPG encryption, LDAP, Kerberos and SSL, * MIME (view images, save parts), * multiple character sets, * GPE address book, * printing and…
balance 3.42 – A simple TCP proxy with load balancing and failover mechanisms. Synopsisbalance [ -b addr ] [ -B addr ] [ -t sec ] [ -T sec ] [ -adfpHM ] port host1[:port1[:maxc]] [!|%] [ … hostn[:portn[:maxc]]] balance [ -b addr ] -i [ -d ] [ -M ] port balance [ -b…
bakefilize – prepare Bakefile project for use with Autoconf Synopsis bakefilize [–copy] [–dry-run] [–force] [–verbose] [–help]DescriptionFor the "autoconf" format, Bakefile creates Makefile.in files that depend on the availability of common pieces of a GNU build system. (config.guess, install-sh, etc.) These tools are part of Automake, which can copy these files into a project’s directory during…
bakefile_gen – batch bakefile generation Synopsis bakefile_gen [-dDESCFILE…] [-FFORMATS…] [-DVAR=VALUE…] [-IPATH…] [-c] [–list-files] [-j] [-p] [–dry-run] [-k] [-n] [-v] [-V]DescriptionCalls bakefile with flags listed in description file (Bakefiles.bkgen or file specified using the –desc option). Command Line Options–desc=DESCFILE Uses given description file instead of Bakefiles.bkgen. –formats=FORMATS Calls Bakefile to generate only makefiles for specified formats….
bakefile – native makefiles generator Synopsis bakefile [–version] [–help] -fFORMAT -oOUTFILE [–eol=[format|dos|unix|mac|native]] [–wrap-output=[no|LENGTH]] [-DVAR=VALUE…] [-IPATH…] [-v] [-q] [–dry-run] [–touch] [–dump] file.bklDescriptionbakefile creates various types of Makefiles and project files from a single project description called a "Bakefile". Command Line Options–version Display Bakefile version and exit. -h, –help Display usage information and exit. -fFORMAT, –format=FORMAT Specify…
bacula-tray-monitor – Bacula’s ‘System Tray’ monitor Synopsisbacula-tray-monitor [options] DescriptionThis manual page documents briefly the bacula-tray-monitor command, a simple monitor for the ‘system tray’ in KDE/GNOME Optionsbacula-tray-monitor [-c config_file] [-d debug_level] [-t] -c <config> Specify configuration file. -d <nn> Set debug level to nn. -t Test config mode: read configuration and exit. -? Show version and usage of…
bwx-console – Bacula’s management Console Synopsisbwx-console [options] DescriptionThis manual page documents briefly the bwx-console command, the wxWidgets version of the Bacula administration console. Optionsbwx-console [-s] [-c config_file] [-d debug_level] [-t] -c <config> Specify configuration file. -d <nn> Set debug level to nn. -s No signals. -t Test config mode: read configuration and exit. -? Show…