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.
chicken-profile – generate a report from profile-information Synopsischicken-profile [ filename | option … ] Options-sort-by-calls Sort output by call frequency. -sort-by-time Sort output by procedure execution time. -sort-by-avg Sort output by average procedure execution time. -sort-by-name Sort output alphabetically by procedure name. -no-unused Remove procedures that are never called. -help Show usage information. Descriptionchicken-profile reads…
chicken-install – download and install extension libraries for CHICKEN Scheme Synopsischicken-install [OPTION | EXTENSION[:VERSION]] … Descriptionchicken-install is a program that downloads, compiles and installs a prepackaged extension library from sources. If no extension name is given on the command-line, then any existing setup scripts in the current directory will be executed in some unspecified order….
chicken-bug – generates a bug report from user input Synopsischicken-bug [ filename | OPTION … ] Options-help Show usage information. -to-stdout Write bug report to standard output instead of writing it to a file. – Read user input from standard input, even if files are given on the command line. Descriptionchicken-bug generates a bug report…
chgrp – change group ownership Synopsischgrp [,OPTION/]… ,GROUP FILE/… chgrp [,OPTION/]… ,–reference=RFILE FILE/… DescriptionChange the group of each FILE to GROUP. With –reference, change the group of each FILE to that of RFILE. -c, –changes like verbose but report only when a change is made -f, –silent, –quiet suppress most error messages -v, –verbose output…
chfn – change real user name and information Synopsis chfn [options] [LOGIN]DescriptionThe chfn command changes user fullname, office room number, office phone number, and home phone number information for a user’s account. This information is typically printed by finger(1) and similar programs. A normal user may only change the fields for her own account, subject…
cherrytree – a hierarchical note taking application Synopsischerrytree [filepath [-n nodename] [-x export_to_html_dir]] Descriptioncherrytree is a hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text, syntax highlighting, images handling, hyperlinks, import/export with support for multiple formats, support for multiple languages, and more. Authorcherrytree was written by Giuseppe Penone <giuspen [at] gmail.com>. This manual page was written by…
cherryd – cherryd Synopsischerryd [options] Options-h, –help show this help message and exit -c CONFIG, –config=CONFIG specify config file(s) -d run the server as a daemon -e ENVIRONMENT, –environment=ENVIRONMENT apply the given config environment -f start a fastcgi server instead of the default HTTP server -s start a scgi server instead of the default HTTP…
chemtool – chemical structures editor Synopsis chemtool [filename] Descriptionchemtool is a program for drawing organic molecules and exporting them as a X bitmap, PNG, PicTeX, Xfig, SVG, SXD, MDL or EPS file. It runs under the X Window System using the GTK widget set. The program offers essentially unlimited undo/redo, two text fonts plus symbols,…
chem – groff preprocessor for producing chemical structure diagrams Synopsis[ — ] [filespec … ] -h –help -v –version Descriptionchem produces chemical structure diagrams. Today’s version is best suited for organic chemistry (bonds, rings). The chem program is a groff preprocessor like eqn, pic, tbl, etc. It generates pic output such that all chem parts…
cheese – tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam Synopsis cheese [option…]Descriptioncheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others. It was written as part of Google’s 2007 Summer of Code lead by daniel g. siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx….
checkpto – Helper program for Hugin’s Makefile assistant Synopsischeckpto input.pto Descriptioncheckpto examines the connections between images in a project and reports back the number of parts or image groups in that project checkpto is used by the Assistant Makefile when creating a new project. Further Switches–print-output-info Print more information about the output -generate-argfile=file Generate Exiftool…
checkmk – Awk script for generating C unit tests for use with the Check unit testing framework. Synopsischeckmk [ clean_mode=1 ] [ input-file ] DescriptionGenerate C-language source files containing unit tests for use with the Check unit testing framework. The aim of this script is to automate away some of the typical boilerplate one must…
checkisomd5 — check an MD5 checksum implanted by implantisomd5 Synopsischeckisomd5 [–md5sumonly] [–verbose] [–gauge] [isofilename | blockdevice ] DescriptionThis manual page documents briefly the checkisomd5 command. checkisomd5 is a program that checks an embedded MD5 checksum in a ISO9660 image (.iso), or block device. The checksum is embedded by the corresponding implantisomd5 command. The check can…
checkdigits – check or generate check digits VersionThis document describes checkdigits v1.3.2 Synopsis checkdigits [Options] command [[number] …] options: -algorithm alg – use this algorithm commands: check – check validity of number containing checkdigit checkdigit – return checkdigit belonging to number complete – return number completed with checkdigit list_algorithms – list all known algorithms describe…
checkbashisms – check for bashisms in /bin/sh scripts Synopsischeckbashisms script … checkbashisms –help|–version Descriptioncheckbashisms, based on one of the checks from the lintian system, performs basic checks on /bin/sh shell scripts for the possible presence of bashisms. It takes the names of the shell scripts on the command line, and outputs warnings if possible bashisms…
"check_updates" – a Nagios plugin to check if Red Hat or Fedora system is up-to-date Descriptioncheck_updates is a Nagios plugin to check if Red Hat or Fedora system is up-to-date VersionVersion 1.6.18 Synopsis check_updates [OPTIONS] -?, –usage Print usage information -h, –help Print detailed help screen -V, –version Print version information –extra-opts=[<section>[@<config_file>]] Section and/or config_file…
check_mk – command line utility for managing Check_MK Synopsischeck_mk [GLOBAL OPTIONS] [MODE] [MODE OPTIONS] [ARGUMENTS…] Descriptioncheck_mk (or its alias cmk) is a command line utility for managing some aspects of the Check_MK Monitoring System. It can be used for diagnosis, for automating things in scripts and for doing some tasks more efficiently than with the…
checkXML – An XML lint tool for KDE DocBook XML documents. Synopsis checkXML [filename]DescriptioncheckXML is a tool to check for syntax errors in KDE DocBook XML files. It can also be used for other DocBook based XML files, but you should use the less specific xmllint(1) tool if you are not writing or otherwise working…
check-regexp – test regular expressions from the command line Synopsischeck-regexp ‘regular expression’ ‘string1’ ‘string2’ … Descriptioncheck-regexp (GNU Source-highlight) You simply pass as the first command line argument the regular expression and then the strings you want to try to match. It is crucial, in order to avoid shell substitutions, to enclose both the expression and…
check-module – program to check gnulib modules. Synopsischeck-module [OPTIONS] FILE… DescriptionThe GNU portability library is a macro system and C declarations and definitions for commonly-used API elements and abstracted system behaviors. It can be used to improve portability and other functionality in your programs. check-module reads a module description file and derives the set of…