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NAME pambackground – create a mask of the background area of an image SYNOPSIS pambackground [netpbmfile] [-verbose=] Minimum unique abbreviations of options are acceptable. You may use double hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options. You may use white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from its value….
NAME pamarith – perform arithmetic on two Netpbm images SYNOPSIS pamarith -add | -subtract | -multiply | -divide | -difference | -minimum | -maximum | -mean | -compare | -and | -or | -nand | -nor | -xor | -shiftleft | -shiftright pamfile1 pamfile2 All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You…
NAME pamaddnoise – add noise to a Netpbm image SYNOPSIS pamaddnoise [-type noise_type] [-seed int] pamaddnoise -type gaussian [-sigma1 value] [-sigma2 value] [-seed int] [netpbmfile] pamaddnoise -type multiplicative_gaussian [-mgsigma value] [-seed int] [netpbmfile] pamaddnoise -type impulse [-tolerance ratio] [-seed int] [netpbmfile] pamaddnoise -type laplacian [-lsigma value] [-seed int] [netpbmfile] pamaddnoise -type poisson [-lambda value] [-seed…
NAME pam_wrapper – A preloadable wrapper to test PAM applications and PAM Modules SYNOPSIS LD_PRELOAD=libpam_wrapper.so PAM_WRAPPER=1 PAM_WRAPPER_SERVICE_DIR=/path_to_config ./myapplication DESCRIPTION This tool allows you to either test your PAM application or module. For testing PAM applications we have written a simple PAM module called pam_matrix (see below). If you plan to test a PAM module you…
NAME pam-panel-icon – A notification area indicator of pam_timestamp status SYNOPSIS pam-panel-icon DESCRIPTION pam-panel-icon should be automatically started when starting an X11 desktop environment. For example, in GNOME gnome-session should be configured to start pam-panel-icon. In a properly configured system it should never be necessary to start pam-panel-icon manually. pam-panel-icon uses pam_timestamp_check(8) to watch the…
NAME palmtopnm – convert a Palm pixmap into a portable anymap SYNOPSIS palmtopnm [-verbose] [-rendition N] [-showhist] [-forceplain] [pnmfile] palmtopnm -transparent [-verbose] [pnmfile] DESCRIPTION Reads a Palm pixmap as input, from stdin or pnmfile. Produces either a portable pixmap as output, or writes the value of the transparent color in the Palm pixmap to stdout….
NAME pal2rgb – convert a palette color TIFF image to a full color image SYNOPSIS pal2rgb [ options ] input.tif output.tif DESCRIPTION Pal2rgb converts a palette color TIFF image to a full color image by applying the colormap of the palette image to each sample to generate a full color RGB image. OPTIONS Options that…
NAME pakiti-client – report the list of installed packages to a collecting server SYNOPSIS pakiti-client [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION pakiti-client finds the list of installed packages (i.e. "rpm -qa" on an RPM-based system) and formats it in a report that it sends (using a POST request) to a collecting server (see the –url option) and/or writes to…
NAME pagesize – Print supported system page sizes SYNOPSIS pagesize [options] DESCRIPTION The pagesize utility prints the page sizes of a page of memory in bytes, as returned by getpagesizes(3). This is useful when creating portable shell scripts, configuring huge page pools with hugeadm or launching applications to use huge pages with hugectl. If no…
NAME pages2text – convert Pages document into plain text SYNOPSIS pages2text [OPTION] <Pages Document> | <Pages Directory> OPTIONS –info Display document metadata instead of the text –help Shows this help message –version Output pages2text version Index
NAME pages2raw – debug the conversion library SYNOPSIS pages2raw [OPTION] <Pages Document> | <Pages Directory> OPTIONS –callgraph Display the call graph nesting level –help Shows this help message –version Output pages2raw version Index
NAME pages2html – convert Pages document into HTML SYNOPSIS pages2html [OPTION] <Pages Document> | <Pages Directory> OPTIONS –help Shows this help message –version Output pages2html version Index
NAME less – opposite of more SYNOPSIS less -? less –help less -V less –version less [-[+]aABcCdeEfFgGiIJKLmMnNqQrRsSuUVwWX~] [-b space/] [-h lines/] [-j line/] [-k keyfile/] [-{oO} logfile/] [-p pattern/] [-P prompt/] [-t tag/] [-T tagsfile/] [-x tab/,…] [-y lines/] [-[z] lines/] [-# shift/] [+[+]cmd/] [–] [filename/]… (See the OPTIONS section for alternate option syntax with…
NAME padsp – PulseAudio OSS Wrapper SYNOPSIS padsp [options] PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS …] padsp -h DESCRIPTION padsp starts the specified program and redirects its access to OSS compatible audio devices (/dev/dsp and auxiliary devices) to a PulseAudio sound server. padsp uses the $LD_PRELOAD environment variable that is interpreted by ld.so(8) and thus does not work for…
NAME pactl – Control a running PulseAudio sound server SYNOPSIS pactl [options] COMMAND [ARGS …] pactl –help pactl –version DESCRIPTION pactl can be used to issue control commands to the PulseAudio sound server. pactl only exposes a subset of the available operations. For the full set use the pacmd(1). OPTIONS -h | –help Show help….
NAME pacmd – Reconfigure a PulseAudio sound server during runtime SYNOPSIS pacmd pacmd –help pacmd –version DESCRIPTION This tool can be used to introspect or reconfigure a running PulseAudio sound server during runtime. It connects to the sound server and offers a simple live shell that can be used to enter the commands also understood…
NAME packf – pack messages in nmh folder into a single file SYNOPSIS packf [+folder] [msgs] [-file name] [-mbox] [-mmdf] [-version] [-help] DESCRIPTION Packf will pack copies of messages from a folder, into a single file. If the -mbox switch is given (the default), then the messages are separated using mbox (uucp) style delimiters. This…
NAME packetforge-ng – forge packets: ARP, UDP, ICMP or custom packets. SYNOPSIS packetforge-ng <mode> <options> DESCRIPTION packetforge-ng is a tool to create encrypted packets that can subsequently be used for injection. You may create various types of packets such as arp requests, UDP, ICMP and custom packets. The most common use is to create ARP…
NAME package-cleanup – clean up locally installed, duplicate, or orphaned packages SYNOPSIS package-cleanup [options] <item …> DESCRIPTION package-cleanup is a program for cleaning up the locally-installed RPMs. GENERAL OPTIONS -c <config file> Use alternative config file (default is /etc/yum.conf). -h, –help Help; display a help message and then quit. -q, –quiet Print out nothing unnecessary….
NAME pack200 – Packages a JAR file into a compressed pack200 file for web deployment. SYNOPSIS pack200 [options] output-file JAR-file Options can be in any order. The last option on the command line or in a properties file supersedes all previously specified options. options The command-line options. See Options. output-file Name of the output file….