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NAME patgen – generate patterns for TeX hyphenation SYNOPSIS patgen dictionary_file pattern_file patout_file translate_file DESCRIPTION This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. See also the Info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation available as part of the TeX Live distribution or at http://tug.org/web2c. The patgen program reads the dictionary_file containing a list…
NAME patchwork – filter for drawing clustered graphs as treemaps SYNOPSIS patchwork [–(G|N|E)name=value] [-Tlang] [-llibfile] [-ooutfile] [-O] [-P] [-v] [-V] [files] DESCRIPTION patchwork draws clustered graphs using a squarified treemap layout. As input, it takes any graph in the dot format. Each cluster is given an area based on the areas specified by the clusters…
NAME patchelf – Modify ELF files SYNOPSIS patchelf OPTION FILE DESCRIPTION PatchELF is a simple utility for modifying existing ELF executables and libraries. It can change the dynamic loader ("ELF interpreter") of executables and change the RPATH of executables and libraries. OPTIONS The single option given operates on a given FILE, editing in place. –set-interpreter…
NAME patch – apply a diff file to an original SYNOPSIS patch [options] [originalfile [patchfile]] but usually just patch -pnum <patchfile DESCRIPTION patch takes a patch file patchfile containing a difference listing produced by the diff program and applies those differences to one or more original files, producing patched versions. Normally the patched versions are…
NAME patcat – combine two GUS patches into one stereo extended GUS patch SYNOPSIS patcat left.pat right.pat DESCRIPTION Patcat combines two ordinary monophonic GUS patches to make an extended GUS patch that has two channels. The left channel is from the first of the two patch files that were combined, and the right channel is…
NAME pasuspender – Temporarily suspend PulseAudio SYNOPSIS pasuspender [options] — PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS …] pasuspender –help pasuspender –version DESCRIPTION pasuspender is a tool that can be used to tell a local PulseAudio sound server to temporarily suspend access to the audio devices, to allow other applications access them directly. pasuspender will suspend access to the audio…
NAME paste – merge lines of files SYNOPSIS paste [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/]… DESCRIPTION Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, 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, –delimiters=,LIST/ reuse characters…
NAME passwd – change user password SYNOPSIS passwd [options] [LOGIN] DESCRIPTION The passwd command changes passwords for user accounts. A normal user may only change the password for their own account, while the superuser may change the password for any account. passwd also changes the account or associated password validity period. Password Changes The user…
NAME passmass – change password on multiple machines SYNOPSIS passmass [ host1 host2 host3 … ] INTRODUCTION Passmass changes a password on multiple machines. If you have accounts on several machines that do not share password databases, Passmass can help you keep them all in sync. This, in turn, will make it easier to change…
NAME passenger-config – Show configuration settings for Phusion Passenger SYNOPSIS passenger-config –root | –version DESCRIPTION passenger-config shows the current configuration settings for Phusion Passenger. You need to select one of the following options. OPTIONS –root Shows the Phusion Passenger root directory –version Shows the current Phusion Passenger version number SEE ALSO passenger-memory-stats(1), passenger-stress-test(1), passenger-status(8) User…
NAME pass – stores, retrieves, generates, and synchronizes passwords securely SYNOPSIS pass [ COMMAND ] [ OPTIONS ]… [ ARGS ]… DESCRIPTION pass is a very simple password store that keeps passwords inside gpg2(1) encrypted files inside a simple directory tree residing at ~/.password-store. The pass utility provides a series of commands for manipulating the…
NAME pacat – Play back or record raw or encoded audio streams on a PulseAudio sound server SYNOPSIS paplay [options] [FILE] parecord [options] [FILE] pacat [options] [FILE] parec [options] [FILE] pamon [options] [FILE] pacat –help pacat –version DESCRIPTION pacat is a simple tool for playing back or capturing raw or encoded audio files on a…
NAME pacat – Play back or record raw or encoded audio streams on a PulseAudio sound server SYNOPSIS paplay [options] [FILE] parecord [options] [FILE] pacat [options] [FILE] parec [options] [FILE] pamon [options] [FILE] pacat –help pacat –version DESCRIPTION pacat is a simple tool for playing back or capturing raw or encoded audio files on a…
NAME Parcellite – Lightweight GTK+ Clipboard Manager SYNOPSIS parcellite [OPTION] DESCRIPTION Parcellite is a lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager. This is a stripped down, basic-features-only clipboard manager with a small memory footprint for those who like simplicity. Parcellite features a clipboard CLI. Unrecognized options and the contents of your standard input get copied to your clipboard….
NAME parallel – run programs in parallel SYNOPSIS parallel [options] [command]— [argument …] parallel [options]— [command …] DESCRIPTION parallel runs the specified command, passing it a single one of the specified arguments. This is repeated for each argument. Jobs may be run in parallel. The default is to run one job per CPU. If no…
NAME par – parallel command processing SYNOPSIS par [-defiqx] [-c command] [-l logfile] [-n #] [-p #] [file [file…]] DESCRIPTION par takes a list of files to run a command on. The first line of each file begins with a colon (:) or a pound-sign (#). If a colon, the remainder of the line is…
NAME pap – client interface to remote printers using Printer Access Protocol SYNOPSIS pap [-A address] [-c] [-d] [-e] [-E] [-p nbpname] [-s statusfile] [-w] [-W] [FILES] DESCRIPTION pap is used to connect and send files to an AppleTalk connected printer using the Apple Printer Access Protocol (PAP). When pap starts execution, it tries to open a session…
NAME paps – UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango SYNOPSIS paps [options] files… DESCRIPTION paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves through the pango ft2 backend. OPTIONS These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options…
NAME pacat – Play back or record raw or encoded audio streams on a PulseAudio sound server SYNOPSIS paplay [options] [FILE] parecord [options] [FILE] pacat [options] [FILE] parec [options] [FILE] pamon [options] [FILE] pacat –help pacat –version DESCRIPTION pacat is a simple tool for playing back or capturing raw or encoded audio files on a…
NAME papi_xml_event_info – papi_xml_event_info utility. file event_info.c NAME papi_xml_event_info – provides detailed information for PAPI events in XML format Synopsis Description papi_native_avail is a PAPI utility program that reports information about the events available on the current platform in an XML format. It will attempt to create an EventSet with each event in it, which…