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 dselect – Debian package management frontend SYNOPSIS dselect [option…] [action] DESCRIPTION dselect is one of the primary user interfaces for managing packages on a Debian system. At the dselect main menu, the system administrator can: – Update the list of available package versions, – View the status of installed and available packages, – Alter…
ds-logpipe.py – Create and read from a named pipe instead of a log file Synopsis ds-logpipe.py /full/path/to/namedpipe [-m maxlinestobuffer] [-u userid] [-s serverpidfile] [-t servertimeout] [–plugin=/path/to/pluginfile.py] [pluginfile.arg=value] Description The Named Pipe Log Script allows you to replace a log file with a named pipe attached to a script. The server can then send the log output to a script instead…
NAME ds-logpipe.py – Create and read from a named pipe instead of a log file SYNOPSIS ds-logpipe.py /full/path/to/namedpipe [-m maxlinestobuffer] [-u userid] [-s serverpidfile] [-t servertimeout] [–plugin=/path/to/pluginfile.py] [pluginfile.arg=value] DESCRIPTION The Named Pipe Log Script allows you to replace a log file with a named pipe attached to a script. The server can then send the log output to a script…
NAME dropwatch – kernel dropped packet monitoring utility SYNOPSIS dropwatch [-l <method> | list] DESCRIPTION dropwatch dropwatch is an interactive utility for monitoring and recording packets that are dropped by the kernel OPTIONS -l <method> | list Select the translation method to use when a drop alert arrives. By default the raw instruction pointer of…
NAME dropuser – remove a PostgreSQL user account SYNOPSIS dropuser [connection-option…] [option…] [username] DESCRIPTION dropuser removes an existing PostgreSQL user. Only superusers and users with the CREATEROLE privilege can remove PostgreSQL users. (To remove a superuser, you must yourself be a superuser.) dropuser is a wrapper around the SQL command DROP ROLE (DROP_ROLE(7)). There is…
NAME droplang – remove a PostgreSQL procedural language SYNOPSIS droplang [connection-option…] langname [dbname] droplang [connection-option…] –list | -l [dbname] DESCRIPTION droplang is a utility for removing an existing procedural language from a PostgreSQL database. droplang is just a wrapper around the DROP EXTENSION (DROP_EXTENSION(7)) SQL command. Caution droplang is deprecated and may be removed in…
NAME dropdb – remove a PostgreSQL database SYNOPSIS dropdb [connection-option…] [option…] dbname DESCRIPTION dropdb destroys an existing PostgreSQL database. The user who executes this command must be a database superuser or the owner of the database. dropdb is a wrapper around the SQL command DROP DATABASE (DROP_DATABASE(7)). There is no effective difference between dropping databases…
NAME dropbox – A command line interface to the Dropbox service SYNOPSIS dropbox status dropbox help[COMMAND] dropbox puburl FILE dropbox stop dropbox running dropbox start[-i] dropbox filestatus[-l][-a][FILE]… dropbox ls[FILE]… dropbox autostart[y / n] dropbox exclude[list] dropbox lansync[y / n] DESCRIPTION The dropbox command provides a command line interface to the Dropbox, the easiest online file…
NAME dropbearkey – create private keys for the use with dropbear(8) or dbclient(1) SYNOPSIS dropbearkey -t type -f file [-s bits] [-y] DESCRIPTION dropbearkey generates a RSA, DSS, or ECDSA format SSH private key, and saves it to a file for the use with the Dropbear client or server. Note that some SSH implementations use…
NAME dropbearconvert – convert between Dropbear and OpenSSH private key formats SYNOPSIS dropbearconvert input_type output_type input_file output_file DESCRIPTION Dropbear and OpenSSH SSH implementations have different private key formats. dropbearconvert can convert between the two. Dropbear uses the same SSH public key format as OpenSSH, it can be extracted from a private key by using dropbearkey…
NAME driverless – PPD generator utility for driverless printing SYNOPSIS driverless[-h | –help | –version][-d | -v | –debug][list][_ipps._tcp][_ipp._tcp][–std – ipp – uris] | [cat driver URI] | [IPP printer URI] DESCRIPTION driverless generates PPD files for printers which are designed for driverless IPP printing (currently IPP Everywhere, AirPrint, Mopria, and Wi-Fi-Direct printers, network printers…
NAME drill – get (debug) information out of DNS(SEC) SYNOPSIS drill [ OPTIONS ] name [ @server ] [ type ] [ class ] DESCRIPTION drill is a tool to designed to get all sorts of information out of the DNS. It is specificly designed to be used with DNSSEC. The name drill is a…
NAME drawtiming – generate timing diagram from signal description SYNOPSIS [–verbose ] [–scale factor ] [–pagesize WxH ] [–aspect ] [–cell-height H ] [–cell-width W ] [–font-size pts ] [–line-width W ] –-output target file … DESCRIPTION This application provides a command line tool for documenting hardware and software designs through ideal timing diagrams. It…
NAME dragon – a video player that has a usability focus SYNOPSIS dragon [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [URL] DESCRIPTION dragon player plays audio and video in different formats. GENERIC OPTIONS –help Show help about options. –help-qt Show Qt specific options. –help-kde Show KDE specific options. –help-all Show all options. –author Show author information. -v, –version Show version…
NAME dptsv – mutual converter between TSV and QDBM Depot database SYNOPSIS dptsv import [-bnum num] [-bin] name dptsv export [-bin] name DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the dptsv commands. The command dptsv features mutual conversion between a database of Depot and a TSV text. This command is useful when data exchange with another…
NAME dptest – test cases for QDBM Depot SYNOPSIS dptest write [-s] name rnum bnum dptest read [-wb] name dptest rcat [-c] name rnum bnum pnum align dptest combo name dptest wicked [-c] name rnum DESCRIPTION The command `dptest’ is a utility for facility test and performance test. Check a database generated by the command…
dpromdic – Convert the binary-form Romaji-to-Kana conversion table into the text-form table SYNOPSYS dpromdic [ file ] DESCRIPTION dpromdic converts the binary-form Romaji-to-Kana conversion table into the text-form table. It then outputs the result to the standard output. After a dictionary table is converted into the binary dictionary by using mkromdic(1), dpromdic can returns it…
NAME dprofpp – display perl profile data SYNOPSIS dprofpp [-a|-z|-l|-v|-U] [-d] [-s|-r|-u] [-q] [-F] [-I|-E] [-O cnt] [-A] [-R] [-S] [-g subroutine] [-G <regexp> [-P]] [-f <regexp>] [profile] dprofpp -T [-F] [-g subroutine] [profile] dprofpp -t [-F] [-g subroutine] [profile] dprofpp -G <regexp> [-P] [profile] dprofpp -p script [-Q] [other opts] dprofpp -V [profile] DESCRIPTION…
NAME dpmgr – administration utility for QDBM Depot SYNOPSIS dpmgr create [-s] [-bnum num] name dpmgr put [-kx|-ki] [-vx|-vi|-vf] [-keep|-cat] [-na] name key val dpmgr out [-kx|-ki] name key dpmgr get [-nl] [-kx|-ki] [-start num] [-max num] [-ox] [-n] name key dpmgr list [-nl] [-k|-v] [-ox] name dpmgr optimize [-bnum num] [-na] name dpmgr inform…
NAME dpkg – package manager for Debian SYNOPSIS dpkg [option…] action WARNING This manual is intended for users wishing to understand dpkg‘s command line options and package states in more detail than that provided by dpkg –help. It should not be used by package maintainers wishing to understand how dpkg will install their packages. The…