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 grep, egrep, fgrep, rgrep – print lines that match patterns SYNOPSIS grep [OPTION…] PATTERNS [FILE…] grep [OPTION…] -e PATTERNS … [FILE…] grep [OPTION…] -f PATTERN_FILE … [FILE…] DESCRIPTION grep 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….
NAME eggdrop – an IRC bot SYNOPSIS eggdrop [options] [config-file] DESCRIPTION Eggdrop 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…
NAME efix – convert between fax, text, bit-map and gray-scale formats SYNOPSIS efix [ options ] file… OPTIONS Where 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…
NAME efivar – Tool to manipulate UEFI variables SYNOPSIS efivar [,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 append Help…
NAME efax – send/receive faxes with Class 1, 2 or 2.0 fax modem (Please read the fax man page first.) SYNOPSIS efax [ options ] [ -t num [ file… ] ] OPTIONS Where options are: -a cmd use the command ATcmd when answering the phone. The default is "A". -c caps set the local…
NAME ef – Utility to run a program under the Electric Fence memory debugger SYNOPSIS ef PROGRAM [ARGS…] DESCRIPTION The 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…
NAME EDSAdmin – the Erudite Directory Service Admin tool SYNOPSIS edsadmin [–raw_mode] DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the edsadmin command. OPTIONS –raw_mode Show raw LDAP properties for objects in the directory. OPTIONAL FEATURES If the python-dns package and/or the mdnsresponder and ctypes packages are installed, EDSAdmin will use them to automatically detect LDAP servers…
NAME editres – a dynamic resource editor for X Toolkit applications SYNTAX editres [ -toolkitoption … ] OPTIONS Editres accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options (see X(7)). The order of the command line options is not important. DESCRIPTION Editres is a tool that allows users and application developers to view the…
NAME nano – Nano’s ANOther editor, inspired by Pico SYNOPSIS nano [options] [[+line[,column]] file]… nano [options] [[+[crCR](/|?)string] file]… DESCRIPTION nano 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…
NAME 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]} DESCRIPTION You 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…
NAME editcap – Edit and/or translate the format of capture files SYNOPSIS editcap [ -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 DESCRIPTION…
NAME run-mailcap, view, see, edit, compose, print – execute programs via entries in the mailcap file SYNOPSIS run-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). DESCRIPTION run-mailcap (or any of its aliases) will use the given action…
NAME edid-decode – Decode EDID data in human-readable format SYNOPSIS edid-decode [in] [out] DESCRIPTION edid-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…
Name edhead – Edit header of FITS or IRAF image file Synopsis edhead [options] FITS or IRAF file(s) Description Edit 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>…
NAME edgepaint – edge coloring to disambiguate crossing edges SYNOPSIS [ options ] [ -o outfile ] [ files ] DESCRIPTION edgepaint 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. OPTIONS The following options…
NAME edg-gridftp-rmdir – Remove a directory on a GridFTP server. SYNOPSIS edg-gridftp-rmdir [–proxy=proxy] [–timeout=timeout] URL [URL …] edg-gridftp-rmdir –usage edg-gridftp-rmdir –help DESCRIPTION edg-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…
NAME edg-gridftp-rm – Remove a file on a GridFTP server. SYNOPSIS edg-gridftp-rm [–proxy=proxy] [–timeout=timeout] URL [URL …] edg-gridftp-rm –usage edg-gridftp-rm –help DESCRIPTION edg-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…
NAME edg-gridftp-rename – Rename a file or directory on a GridFTP server. SYNOPSIS edg-gridftp-rename [–proxy=proxy] [–timeout=timeout] SourceURL DestinationURL edg-gridftp-rename –usage edg-gridftp-rename –help DESCRIPTION edg-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…
NAME edg-gridftp-mkdir – Create a directory on a GridFTP server. SYNOPSIS edg-gridftp-mkdir [–proxy=proxy] [–timeout=timeout] [–parents] URL [URL …] edg-gridftp-mkdir –usage edg-gridftp-mkdir –help DESCRIPTION edg-gridftp-mkdir creates a directory on a GridFTP server. This command will return a status of 0 if the directory was created successfully. In all other cases, it will return a non-zero value…
NAME edg-gridftp-ls – List a file or contents of directory. SYNOPSIS edg-gridftp-ls [–proxy=proxy] [–timeout=timeout] [–verbose] [–noauth] URL edg-gridftp-ls –usage edg-gridftp-ls –help DESCRIPTION edg-gridftp-ls will list (to the standard output) a file or the contents of a directory for the given URL. It will return a zero status on success. In all other cases, it will…