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 lispmtopgm – convert a Lisp Machine bitmap file into pgm format SYNOPSIS lispmtopgm [lispmfile] DESCRIPTION Reads a Lisp Machine bitmap as input. Produces a portable graymap as output. This is the file format written by the tv:write-bit-array-file function on TI Explorer and Symbolics lisp machines. Multi-plane bitmaps on lisp machines are color; but the…
NAME lircrcd – daemon to handle consistent .lircrc state among client applications SYNOPSIS lircrcd [options] config-file DESCRIPTION lircrcd reads the given .lircrc config file and synchronises the mode that the LIRC clients using this config file (irexec(1), irxevent(1) , etc.) are in. Using lircrcd has to be explicitly enabled in the config file by adding…
NAME lirc-lsremotes – parse lirc configuration files. SYNOPSIS lirc-lsremotes [options] <directory> lirc-lsremotes [options] <file> DESCRIPTION lirc-lsremotes can parse lirc remote configuration files (i. e., lircd.conf) and display a condensed index line, the complete data and/or diagnostics. When given a directory (first form) it expects this to contain a number of vendor directories, each of which…
NAME lirc-lsplugins – print dynamic modules info SYNOPSIS lirc-lsplugins [-l] [-q] [-U plugindir] [drivers] lirc-lsplugins -e [-q] [-U plugindir] lirc-lsplugins -e [-q|-p|-h|-v] DESCRIPTION Tool which writes a simple list with info for each driver found. In particular, it writes info if a plugin can’t be loaded e. g., due to unresolved references. The [drivers] argument…
NAME setarch – change reported architecture in new program environment and/or set personality flags SYNOPSIS setarch [arch] [options] [program [argument…]] setarch –list|-h|-V arch [options] [program [argument…]] DESCRIPTION setarch modifies execution domains and process personality flags. The execution domains currently only affects the output of uname -m. For example, on an AMD64 system, running setarch i386…
NAME setarch – change reported architecture in new program environment and/or set personality flags SYNOPSIS setarch [arch] [options] [program [argument…]] setarch –list|-h|-V arch [options] [program [argument…]] DESCRIPTION setarch modifies execution domains and process personality flags. The execution domains currently only affects the output of uname -m. For example, on an AMD64 system, running setarch i386…
NAME linux-version – operate on Linux kernel version strings SYNOPSIS linux-version compare VERSION1 OP VERSION2 linux-version sort [–reverse] [VERSION1 VERSION2 …] linux-version list [–paths] DESCRIPTION linux-version operates on Linux kernel version strings as reported by uname -r and used in file and directory names. These version strings do not follow the same rules as Debian package version strings and…
NAME linux-update-symlinks – maintain symlinks to default kernel and initramfs SYNOPSIS linux-update-symlinks {install|upgrade|remove} VERSION IMAGE-PATH DESCRIPTION linux-update-symlinks is intended to be called from the postinst and postrm maintainer scripts of Linux kernel packages. The postinst script must pass the first argument install or upgrade depending on whether a fresh installation or an upgrade has taken place….
NAME linux-check-removal – check whether removal of a kernel is safe SYNOPSIS linux-check-removal VERSION DESCRIPTION linux-check-removal is intended to be called from the prerm maintainer scripts of Linux kernel packages. The VERSION argument must be the kernel version string as shown by uname -r and used in filenames. If the currently running kernel matches VERSION, linux-check-removal…
NAME linux-boot-prober — Determine boot characteristics of a specified device. SYNOPSIS linux-boot-prober <partition> DESCRIPTION The linux-boot-prober utility will try to work out how to boot the linux root partition specified by <partition>. If successful, it will outoput one or more lines of the form: <root partition>:<boot partition>:<label>:<kernel path>:<initrd path>:<kernel parameters> For example, for a system…
NAME lintian – Static analysis tool for Debian packages SYNOPSIS lintian [action] [options] [packages] … DESCRIPTION Lintian dissects Debian packages and reports bugs and policy violations. It contains automated checks for many aspects of Debian policy as well as some checks for common errors. There are two ways to specify binary, udeb or source packages…
NAME lintian-lab-tool – perform common operations on/involving laboratories SYNOPSIS lintian-lab-tool <cmd> <lab> […] lintian-lab-tool help DESCRIPTION The lintian-lab-tool … OPERATIONS create-lab laboratory-dir Creates a new permanent Lintian laboratory in the directory denoted by laboratory-dir. help [cmd] Display the synopsis of this tool or one of its operations. remove-lab laboratory-dir Removes a permanent Lintian laboratory in…
NAME lintian-info – give detailed information about Lintian’s error tags SYNOPSIS lintian-info [log-file…] lintian-info –tags tag … DESCRIPTION The lintian-info command parses the output of the lintian command and gives verbose information about the listed Lintian error tags, parses a Lintian override file and gives verbose information about the tags included, or (if given the…
NAME links – lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser SYNOPSIS links [options] URL DESCRIPTION links is a text mode WWW browser with ncurses interface, supporting colors, correct table rendering, background downloading, menu driven configuration interface and slim code. Frames are supported. You can have different file formats associated with external viewers. mailto: and telnet: are…
NAME linkicc – little cms device link generator. SYNOPSIS linkicc [options] <profiles> DESCRIPTION lcms is a standalone CMM engine, which deals with the color management. It implements a fast transformation between ICC profiles. linkicc is little cms device link generator. Links two or more profiles into a single devicelink profile. Colorspaces must be paired except…
NAME linkchecker – command line client to check HTML documents and websites for broken links SYNOPSIS linkchecker [options] [file-or-url]… DESCRIPTION LinkChecker features • recursive and multithreaded checking, • output in colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, XML or a sitemap graph in different formats, • support for HTTP/1.1, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Telnet…
NAME link – call the link function to create a link to a file SYNOPSIS link ,FILE1 FILE2/ link ,OPTION/ DESCRIPTION Call the link function to create a link named FILE2 to an existing FILE1. –help display this help and exit –version output version information and exit AUTHOR Written by Michael Stone. REPORTING BUGS GNU…
NAME link-parser – parses natural language sentences SYNOPSIS link-parser [language] [-pp pp_knowledge_file] [-c constituent_knowledge_file] [-a affix_file] [-ppoff] [-coff] [-aoff] [-batch] [-<special "!" command>] DESCRIPTION In Selator, D. and Temperly, D. "Parsing English with a Link Grammar" (1991), the authors defined a new formal grammatical system called a "link grammar". A sequence of words is in…
NAME linefind – Detect vertical features in images SYNOPSIS linefind [options] -o output.pto input.pto DESCRIPTION linefind is a detector for vertical features in images. It tries to find vertical lines using the same algorithm as Calibrate_lens_gui and assigns vertical control points to them. The detection runs on the source images, if the input images are…
NAME lilysong – manual page for lilysong 2.12.2 SYNOPSIS lilysong [-p PLAY-PROGRAM] FILE.xml [LANGUAGE-CODE-OR-VOICE [SPEEDUP]] lilysong FILE.ly [LANGUAGE-CODE-OR-VOICE] lilysong –list-voices lilysong –list-languages OPTIONS –version show program’s version number and exit -h, –help show this help message and exit –list-voices list available Festival voices –list-languages list available Festival languages -p PROGRAM, –play-program=PROGRAM use PROGRAM to play…