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.
eject – eject removable media eject [options] device|mountpoint Descriptioneject allows removable media (typically a CD-ROM, floppy disk, tape, JAZ, ZIP or USB disk) to be ejected under software control. The command can also control some multi-disc CD-ROM changers, the auto-eject feature supported by some devices, and close the disc tray of some CD-ROM drives. The…
eiciel – GNOME ACL file permissions editor Synopsiseiciel Descriptioneiciel is a graphical editor of file ACLs for the GNOME environment. In order to do something useful with it, you will need ACL support in your system and in your filesystems. Currently only Linux 2.6 (or a patched 2.4, see below) and FreeBSD 5.x are supported….
grep, egrep, fgrep, rgrep – print lines that match patterns Synopsisgrep [OPTION…] PATTERNS [FILE…] grep [OPTION…] -e PATTERNS … [FILE…] grep [OPTION…] -f PATTERN_FILE … [FILE…] Descriptiongrep searches for PATTERNS in each FILE. PATTERNS is one or more patterns separated by newline characters, and grep prints each line that matches a pattern. Typically PATTERNS should…
eggdrop – an IRC bot Synopsiseggdrop [options] [config-file] DescriptionEggdrop is the World’s most popular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bot; it is freely distributable under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Eggdrop is a feature rich program designed to be easily used and expanded upon by both novice and advanced IRC users on a variety of…
efix – convert between fax, text, bit-map and gray-scale formats Synopsisefix [ options ] file… OptionsWhere options are: -i f the input image is in format f. Default is to automatically determine the input type from its contents. fax fax ("Group3") 1-D coded image text text. Line feeds separate lines, form feeds cause page breaks…
efivar – Tool to manipulate UEFI variables Synopsisefivar [,OPTION/…] Description-l, –list list current variables -p, –print print variable specified by –name -n, –name=<guid-name> variable to manipulate, in the form 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-Boot0000 -a, –append append to variable specified by –name -f, –fromfile=<file> use data from <file> -t, –attributes=<attributes> attributes to use on appendHelp options:-?, –help Show this…
efax – send/receive faxes with Class 1, 2 or 2.0 fax modem (Please read the fax man page first.) Synopsisefax [ options ] [ -t num [ file… ] ] OptionsWhere options are: -a cmd use the command ATcmd when answering the phone. The default is "A". -c caps set the local modem capabilities. See…
ef – Utility to run a program under the Electric Fence memory debugger Synopsisef PROGRAM [ARGS…] DescriptionThe ef command is used to launch another program under the Electric Fence memory debugger. It sets up appropriate environment variables and then launches the specified program with the specified arguments. See efence (3) manual page for more details…
EDSAdmin – the Erudite Directory Service Admin tool Synopsisedsadmin [–raw_mode] DescriptionThis manual page documents briefly the edsadmin command. Options–raw_mode Show raw LDAP properties for objects in the directory.Optional FeaturesIf the python-dns package and/or the mdnsresponder and ctypes packages are installed, EDSAdmin will use them to automatically detect LDAP servers on the network. AuthorThis manual page…
editres – a dynamic resource editor for X Toolkit applications Syntaxeditres [ -toolkitoption … ] OptionsEditres accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options (see X(7)). The order of the command line options is not important. DescriptionEditres is a tool that allows users and application developers to view the full widget hierarchy of…
nano – Nano’s ANOther editor, inspired by Pico Synopsisnano [options] [[+line[,column]] file]… nano [options] [[+[crCR](/|?)string] file]… Descriptionnano is a small and friendly editor. It copies the look and feel of Pico, but is free software, and implements several features that Pico lacks, such as: opening multiple files, scrolling per line, undo/redo, syntax coloring, line numbering,…
rediff, editdiff – fix offsets and counts of a hand-edited diff Synopsis rediff ORIGINAL EDITED rediff EDITED rediff {[–help] | [–version]} editdiff FILE editdiff {[–help] | [–version]}DescriptionYou can use rediff to correct a hand-edited unified diff. Take a copy of the diff you want to edit, and edit it without changing any offsets or counts…
editcap – Edit and/or translate the format of capture files Synopsiseditcap [ -A <start time> ] [ -B <stop time> ] [ -c <packets per file> ] [ -C <choplen> ] [ -E <error probability> ] [ -F <file format> ] [ -h ] [ -i <seconds per file> ] [ -r ] [ -s <snaplen> ] [ -S <strict time adjustment> ] [ -t <time adjustment> ] [ -T <encapsulation type> ] [ -v ] infile outfile [ packet#[-packet#] … ] editcap -d | -D <dup window> | -w <dup time window> [ -v ] infile outfile DescriptionEditcap is a…
run-mailcap, view, see, edit, compose, print – execute programs via entries in the mailcap file Synopsisrun-mailcap –action=ACTION [–option[=value]] [MIME-TYPE:[ENCODING:]]FILE […] The see, edit, compose and print versions are just aliases that default to the view, edit, compose, and print actions (respectively). Descriptionrun-mailcap (or any of its aliases) will use the given action to process each…
edid-decode – Decode EDID data in human-readable format Synopsisedid-decode [in] [out] Descriptionedid-decode decodes EDID monitor description data in human-readable format. It takes zero, one, or two arguments. If invoked with no arguments it reads from standard input and writes to standard output. With one argument, the file named by the argument is read instead. With…
edhead – Edit header of FITS or IRAF image file Synopsisedhead [options] FITS or IRAF file(s) DescriptionEdit the header of the specified image file using the editor defined by the EDITOR environment variable. edhead takes care of trailing spaces so they can be ignored while using the editor. Options-e <editor path> Set editor, overiding environment…
edgepaint – edge coloring to disambiguate crossing edges Synopsis[ options ] [ -o outfile ] [ files ] Descriptionedgepaint takes as input a graph in DOT format with node position information (the pos attribute) and colors the edges in a manner making it easier to tell them apart. OptionsThe following options are supported: -accuracy=e accuracy…
edg-gridftp-rmdir – Remove a directory on a GridFTP server. Synopsisedg-gridftp-rmdir [–proxy=proxy] [–timeout=timeout] URL [URL …] edg-gridftp-rmdir –usage edg-gridftp-rmdir –help Descriptionedg-gridftp-rmdir removes the directory from a GridFTP server. This command will return a status of 0 if the directory was successfully removed. In all other cases, it will return a non-zero value and print an error…
edg-gridftp-rm – Remove a file on a GridFTP server. Synopsisedg-gridftp-rm [–proxy=proxy] [–timeout=timeout] URL [URL …] edg-gridftp-rm –usage edg-gridftp-rm –help Descriptionedg-gridftp-rm removes the file from a GridFTP server. This command will return a status of 0 if the file was successfully removed. In all other cases, it will return a non-zero value and print an error…
edg-gridftp-rename – Rename a file or directory on a GridFTP server. Synopsisedg-gridftp-rename [–proxy=proxy] [–timeout=timeout] SourceURL DestinationURL edg-gridftp-rename –usage edg-gridftp-rename –help Descriptionedg-gridftp-rename renames a file or directory on a GridFTP server. Everything but the filename is ignored on the destination URL meaning that files will not be moved between servers. This command will return a status…