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.
growpart – extend a partition in a partition table to fill available space Synopsisgrowpart [OPTIONS] DISK PARTITION-NUMBER growpart partition rewrite partition table so that partition takes up all the space it can options: -h | –help print Usage an exit –fudge F if part could be resized, but change would be less than ‘F’, do not resize (default: 20480)…
growisofs – combined genisoimage frontend/DVD recording program. Synopsisgrowisofs [-dry-run] [-dvd-compat] [-overburn] [-speed=1] -[Z|M] /dev/dvd <genisoimage-options> Descriptiongrowisofs was originally designed as a frontend to genisoimage to facilitate appending of data to ISO9660 volumes residing on random-access media such as DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, plain files, hard disk partitions. In the course of development general purpose DVD recording support…
groups – print the groups a user is in Synopsisgroups [,OPTION/]… [,USERNAME/]… DescriptionPrint group memberships for each USERNAME or, if no USERNAME is specified, for the current process (which may differ if the groups database has changed). –help display this help and exit –version output version information and exitAuthorWritten by David MacKenzie and James Youngman….
grotty – groff driver for typewriter-like devices Synopsis[ -bBcdfhioruUv ] [ -F dir ] [file …] Descriptiongrotty translates the output of GNU troff into a form suitable for typewriter-like devices. Normally grotty should be invoked by using the groff command with a -Tascii, -Tlatin1 or -Tutf8 option on ASCII based systems, and with -Tcp1047 and…
grops – PostScript driver for groff Synopsis[ -glmv ] [ -b n ] [ -c n ] [ -F dir ] [ -I dir ] [ -p papersize ] [ -P prologue ] [ -w n ] [file …] Descriptiongrops translates the output of GNU troff to PostScript. Normally grops should be invoked by using…
gropdf – PDF driver for groff Synopsis[ -dels ] [ -F dir ] [ -I dir ] [ -p paper-size ] #.OP -w n [-u [cmapfile]] [ -y foundry ] [file …] -v –version Descriptiongropdf translates the output of GNU troff to PDF. Normally gropdf should be invoked by using the groff command with a…
Gromit-MPX – Presentation helper to make annotations on screen Synopsisgromit-mpx [options] DescriptionGromit-MPX enables you to make multi-pointer annotations on your screen. It can run in the background and be activated on demand to let you draw over all your currently running applications. The drawing will stay on screen as long as you want, you can…
grolj4 – groff driver for HP LaserJet 4 family Synopsis[ -l ] [ -c num-copies ] [-d [n]] [ -F font-directory ] [ -p paper-size ] [ -w line-width ] [file …] –help -v –version Descriptiongrolj4 is a driver for groff that produces output in PCL5 format suitable for an HP LaserJet 4 printer. There…
grolbp – groff driver for Canon CAPSL printers (LBP-4 and LBP-8 series laser printers) Synopsis[ -l ] [ -c num-copies ] [ -F font-directory ] [ -o orientation ] [ -p paper-size ] [ -w width ] [file …] [–copies=num-copies] [–fontdir=font-directory] [–landscape] [–linewidth=width] [–orientation=orientation] [–papersize=paper-size] [file …] -h –help -v –version Descriptiongrolbp is a driver…
GROK-PULL – Clone or update local git repositories Synopsisgrok-pull -c /path/to/repos.conf DescriptionThis utility runs from a cronjob and downloads the latest manifest from the grokmirror master. If there are new repositories or changes in the existing repositories, grok-pull will perform the necessary git commands to clone or fetch the required data from the master. At…
GROK-MANIFEST – Create manifest for use with grokmirror Synopsisgrok-manifest [opts] -m manifest.js[.gz] -t /path [/path/to/bare.git] DescriptionCall grok-manifest from a git post-update or post-receive hook to create the latest repository manifest. This manifest file is downloaded by mirror slaves (if newer than what they already have) and used to only clone/pull the repositories that have changed…
GROK-FSCK – Check mirrored repositories for corruption Synopsisgrok-fsck -c /path/to/fsck.conf DescriptionGit repositories can get corrupted whether they are frequently updated or not, which is why it is useful to routinely check them using "git fsck". Grokmirror ships with a "grok-fsck" utility that will run "git fsck" on all mirrored git repositories. It is supposed to…
GROK-DUMB-PULL – Update git repositories not managed by grokmirror Synopsisgrok-dumb-pull [options] /path/to/repos DescriptionThis is a satellite utility that updates repositories not exported via grokmirror manifest. You will need to manually clone these repositories using "git clone –mirror" and then define a cronjob to update them as frequently as you require. Grok-dumb-pull will bluntly execute "git…
grohtml – HTML driver for groff Synopsis[ -bhlnprVy ] [ -a aa-text-bits ] [ -D dir ] [ -F dir ] [ -g aa-graphic-bits ] [ -i resolution ] [ -I image-stem ] [ -j filename ] [ -o image-vertical-offset ] [ -s size ] [ -S level ] [ -x html-dialect ] [file …]…
grog – guess options for a following groff command Synopsis[ -C ] [ -T device ] [ –run ] [ –warnings ] [ –ligatures ] [groff-option … ] [ — ] [filespec … ] -h –help -v –version Descriptiongrog reads the input (file names or standard input) and guesses which of the groff(1) options are…
groffer – display groff files and man pages on X and tty Synopsis[mode-option … ] [groff-option … ] [man-option … ] [X-option … ] [ — ] [filespec … ] -h –help -v –version DescriptionThe groffer program is the easiest way to use groff(1). It can display arbitrary documents written in the groff language, see…
groff – front-end for the groff document formatting system Synopsis[ -abcegijklpstzCEGNRSUVXZ ] [ -d cs ] [ -D arg ] [ -f fam ] [ -F dir ] [ -I dir ] [ -K arg ] [ -L arg ] [ -m name ] [ -M dir ] [ -n num ] [ -o list…
grodvi – convert groff output to TeX DVI format Synopsis[ -dl ] [ -F dir ] [ -p papersize ] [ -w n ] [file …] –help -v –version Descriptiongrodvi is a driver for groff that produces TeX DVI format. Normally it should be run by groff -Tdvi. This will run troff -Tdvi; it will…
grn – groff preprocessor for gremlin files Synopsis[ -Cv ] [ -T dev ] [ -M dir ] [ -F dir ] [file …] Descriptiongrn is a preprocessor for including gremlin pictures in groff input. grn writes to standard output, processing only input lines between two that start with .GS and .GE. Those lines must…
grmiregistry – – Remote object registry Synopsisgrmiregistry [OPTIONS]… PORT Descriptiongrmiregistry starts a remote object registry on the current host. If no port number is specified, then port 1099 is used. OptionsRegistry process control: -restart Restart RMI naming service, clearing persistent naming database, if any. -stop Stop RMI naming service. Persistence: -persistent Make RMI naming service…