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.
NAME dvips – convert a TeX DVI file to PostScript SYNOPSIS dvips [ options ] file[.dvi] DESCRIPTION THIS MAN PAGE IS OBSOLETE! See the Texinfo documentation instead. You can read it either in Emacs or with the standalone info program which comes with the GNU texinfo distribution as prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/texinfo*.tar.gz. The program dvips takes a DVI…
NAME pdsh – issue commands to groups of hosts in parallel SYNOPSIS pdsh [options]… command DESCRIPTION pdsh is a variant of the rsh(1) command. Unlike rsh(1), which runs commands on a single remote host, pdsh can run multiple remote commands in parallel. pdsh uses a "sliding window" (or fanout) of threads to conserve resources on…
NAME pdnssec – PowerDNSSEC command and control SYNOPSIS pdnssec [options] command DESCRIPTION pdnssec is a powerful command that is the operator-friendly gateway into PowerDNSSEC configuration. Behind the scenes, pdnssec manipulates a PowerDNS backend database, which also means that for many databases, pdnssec can be run remotely, and can configure key material on different servers. OPTIONS…
NAME pdns_server – The PowerDNS nameserver SYNOPSIS pdns_server [options] DESCRIPTION OPTIONS –daemon=yes|no Indicate if the server should run in the background as a real daemon, or in the foreground. –guardian=yes|no Run pdns_server inside a guardian. This guardian monitors the performance of the inner pdns_server instance. It is also this guardian that pdns_control talks to. –control-console…
NAME pdns_recursor – high-performance, simple and secure recursing nameserver SYNOPSIS pdns_recursor [OPTION]… DESCRIPTION pdns_recursor(1) is a high performance, simple and secure recursing nameserver. It currently powers over two million internet connections. The recursor is configured via a configuration file, but each item in that file can be overridden on the command line. This manpage lists…
NAME pdns_control – Control the PowerDNS nameserver SYNOPSIS pdns_control [options] command DESCRIPTION pdns_control is used to send commands to a running PowerDNS nameserver. OPTIONS A summary of options is included below. –help Show summary of options. –chroot=… Where PowerDNS is chrooted –config-dir=… Location of configuration directory (pdns.conf) –config-name=… Name of this virtual configuration – will…
NAME zone2ldap – convert zonefiles to ldif SYNOPSIS zone2ldap [options] DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the zone2ldap command. zone2ldap is a program that converts bind zonefiles to ldif format which can inserted to an LDAP server OPTIONS A summary of options is included below. –help Show summary of options. –basedn=… Base DN to store…
NAME pdldoc – shell interface to PDL documentation SYNOPSIS pdldoc <text> DESCRIPTION The aim of pdldoc is to provide the same functionality as the "apropos", "help", "sig", OPTIONS -h help print documentation about a PDL function or module or show a PDL manual. This is the default option. -a apropos Regex search PDL documentation database….
NAME pdl2 – Simple shell (version 2) for PDL SYNOPSIS Use PDL interactively: %> pdl2 pdl> $a = sequence(10) # or any other perl or PDL command pdl> print "\$a = $a\n"; $a = [0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9] DESCRIPTION The "pdl2" program, also known as the Perldl2 shell, is…
NAME pdiff – produce a pretty comparison between files SYNOPSIS pdiff FILE1 FILE2 [— A2PS-OPTIONS…] DESCRIPTION Pretty print the differences between FILE1 and FILE2. OPTIONS -h, –help display this help and exit -v, –version display version information and exit -q, –quiet don’t print informational messages -l, –lines search for line differences (`diff’) -w, –words search…
NAME pdfxup – n-up tool with reduced margins SYNOPSIS pdfxup [OPTIONS] [FILE] DESCRIPTION pdfxup creates a PDF document where each page is obtained by combining several pages of a PDF file given as output. The important feature of pdfxup, compared to similar programs, is that it tries to compute the (global) bounding box of the…
NAME pdfunite – Portable Document Format (PDF) page merger SYNOPSIS pdfunite [options] PDF-sourcefile1..PDF-sourcefilen PDF-destfile DESCRIPTION pdfunite merges several PDF (Portable Document Format) files in order of their occurrence on command line to one PDF result file. Neither of the PDF-sourcefile1 to PDF-sourcefilen should be encrypted. OPTIONS -v Print copyright and version information. -h Print usage…
NAME pdftotext – Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.03) SYNOPSIS pdftotext [options] [PDF-file [text-file]] DESCRIPTION Pdftotext converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to plain text. Pdftotext reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes a text file, text-file. If text-file is not specified, pdftotext converts file.pdf to file.txt. If text-file is ‘-‘, the…
NAME pdftosrc – extract source file or stream from PDF file SYNOPSIS pdftosrc PDF-file [stream-object-number] DESCRIPTION If only PDF-file is given as argument, pdftosrc extracts the embedded source file from the first found stream object with /Type /SourceFile within the PDF-file and writes it to a file with the name /SourceName as defined in that…
NAME pdftops – Portable Document Format (PDF) to PostScript converter (version 3.03) SYNOPSIS pdftops [options] <PDF-file> [<PS-file>] DESCRIPTION Pdftops converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to PostScript so they can be printed. Pdftops reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes a PostScript file, PS-file. If PS-file is not specified, pdftops converts file.pdf to file.ps (or…
NAME pdftoppm – Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable Pixmap (PPM) converter (version 3.03) SYNOPSIS pdftoppm [options] PDF-file PPM-root DESCRIPTION Pdftoppm converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to color image files in Portable Pixmap (PPM) format, grayscale image files in Portable Graymap (PGM) format, or monochrome image files in Portable Bitmap (PBM) format. Pdftoppm reads…
NAME pdftopng – Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable Network Graphics (PNG) converter (version 3.04) SYNOPSIS pdftopng [options] PDF-file PNG-root DESCRIPTION Pdftopng converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to color, grayscale, or monochrome image files in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format. Pdftopng reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes one PNG file for each page,…
NAME pdftools – analyze PDF files, change image colors SYNOPSIS pdftools [ OPTION … ] <file> [ <file> … ] DESCRIPTION pdftools analyzes PDF files and changes image colors. It is used by the ConTeXt programs. The image-processing features are not documented here (since I don’t understand what they do). OPTIONS –help Print the available…
NAME pdftohtml – program to convert PDF files into HTML, XML and PNG images SYNOPSIS pdftohtml [options] <PDF-file> [<HTML-file> <XML-file>] DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the pdftohtml command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. pdftohtml is a program that converts…
NAME pdftocairo – Portable Document Format (PDF) to PNG/JPEG/TIFF/PDF/PS/EPS/SVG using cairo SYNOPSIS pdftocairo [options] PDF-file [output-file] DESCRIPTION pdftocairo converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files, using the cairo output device of the poppler PDF library, to any of the following output formats: • Portable Network Graphics (PNG) • JPEG Interchange Format (JPEG) • Tagged Image File…