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 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…
NAME LilyPond – manual page for LilyPond 2.12.2 SYNOPSIS lilypond [OPTION]… FILE… DESCRIPTION Typeset music and/or produce MIDI from FILE. LilyPond produces beautiful music notation. For more information, see http://lilypond.org OPTIONS -d, –define-default=SYM[=VAL] set Scheme option SYM to VAL (default: #t). Use -dhelp for help. -e, –evaluate=EXPR evaluate scheme code -f, –formats=FORMATs dump FORMAT,… Also…
NAME lilypond-invoke-editor – manual page for lilypond-invoke-editor 2.12.2 SYNOPSIS lilypond-invoke-editor [textedit://]FILE:LINE:CHAR:COLUMN DESCRIPTION lilypond-invoke-editor (GNU LilyPond) 2.12.2 Visit a file and position the cursor. OPTIONS -h, –help show this help -v, –version show version SEE ALSO The full documentation for lilypond-invoke-editor is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and lilypond-invoke-editor programs are properly installed…
NAME lilypond-book – manual page for lilypond-book 2.12.2 SYNOPSIS lilypond-book [OPTION]… FILE DESCRIPTION Process LilyPond snippets in hybrid HTML, LaTeX, texinfo or DocBook document. OPTIONS -F, –filter=FILTER pipe snippets through FILTER [default: `convert-ly -n -‘] -f, –format=FORMAT use output format FORMAT (texi [default], texi-html, latex, html, docbook) -h, –help show this help and exit -I,…
NAME lilymidi – manual page for lilymidi 2.12.2 SYNOPSIS lilymidi [options] FILE OPTIONS –version show program’s version number and exit -h, –help show this help message and exit –filter-tracks=REGEXP display only tracks numbers, of those track names matching REGEXP –prefix-tracks=PREFIX prefix filtered track numbers with PREFIX –dump just dump parsed contents of the MIDI file…
NAME lightdm – a display manager SYNOPSIS lightdm [ OPTION ] DESCRIPTION lightdm is a display manager. OPTIONS -h, –help Show help options -c, –config=FILE Use configuration file -d, –debug Print debugging messages –test-mode Run as unprivileged user, skipping things that require root access –pid-file=FILE File to write PID into –xsessions-dir=DIRECTORY Directory to load X…
NAME lightdm-set-defaults – sets configuration options for lightdm SYNOPSIS lightdm-set-defaults [ OPTION ] DESCRIPTION lightdm-set-defaults sets configuration options for lightdm. Requires root permissions to run. OPTIONS -h, –help Show help options -k, –keep-old Only update if no default already set -d, –debug Enable debugging messages -r, –remove Remove default value if it’s the current one…
NAME lid – Display user’s groups or group’s users SYNOPSIS lid [OPTION]… [name] DESCRIPTION Displays information about groups containing user name, or users contained in group name. By default lid lists groups containing user name, or groups containing the invoking user if name is not specified; the mode of operation can be changed using the…
NAME licensecheck – simple license checker for source files SYNOPSIS licensecheck –help|–version licensecheck [–no-conf] [–verbose] [–copyright] [-l|–lines=N] [-i|–ignore=regex] [-c|–check=regex] [-m|–machine] [-r|–recursive] list of files and directories to check DESCRIPTION licensecheck attempts to determine the license that applies to each file passed to it, by searching the start of the file for text belonging to various…
NAME libwacom-list-local-devices – utility to list tablet devices SYNOPSIS libwacom-list-local-devices [–format=oneline|datafile] [–database /path/to/datadir] DESCRIPTION libwacom-list-local-devices is a debug utility to list connected tablet devices identified by libwacom. It is usually used to check whether a libwacom data file is correct, present and/or applies to a specific device. OPTIONS –format=oneline|datafile Sets the output format to be…