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 diffpp – pretty-print diff outputs with GNU enscript SYNOPSIS diffpp currentfile < diff-file DESCRIPTION Diffpp converts diff(1)-program’s output files to a format suitable to be printed with GNU enscript(1). Program annotates the changes with enscript’s special escapes so enscript can highlight the modified portions of the file. All changed and added lines are printed…
NAME diffindex-rred – Restricted restricted ed SYNOPSIS diffindex-rred diff1 … DESCRIPTION diffindex-rred is a command line tool for applying diff –ed style patches, as used in APT’s diff/Index format. It can efficiently apply several patches in one run and does not need to read the whole source file into memory. The source file is taken…
NAME diffindex-download – Download utility for Debian Contents files SYNOPSIS diffindex-download [ options ] URL filename DESCRIPTION diffindex-download is a command line tool for downloading Contents files. It uses APT’s diff/Index format patches when available to avoid downloading the full file. diffindex-download is used by apt-file. OPTIONS -n number If more than number patches would…
NAME diffimg – Calculates intersection between two images SYNOPSIS diffimg image1 image2 [outimage] DESCRIPTION diffimg generates an image where each pixel is the difference between the corresponding pixel in each of the two source images. Thus, if the source images are the same the resulting image will be black, otherwise it will have regions of…
NAME diff3 – compare three files line by line SYNOPSIS diff3 [OPTION]… MYFILE OLDFILE YOURFILE DESCRIPTION Compare three files line by line. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -A, –show-all output all changes, bracketing conflicts -e, –ed output ed script incorporating changes from OLDFILE to YOURFILE into MYFILE -E, –show-overlap…
NAME diff-jars – output the differences between two JAR files SYNOPSIS diff-jars JAR1 JAR2 DESCRIPTION Output the differences between two JAR files. AUTHOR Written by Guillaume Rousse REPORTING BUGS Report bugs using JPackage Bugzilla (http://www.jpackage.org/bugzilla/) Index
NAME dieharder – A testing and benchmarking tool for random number generators. SYNOPSIS dieharder [-a] [-d dieharder test number] [-f filename] [-B] [-D output flag [-D output flag] … ] [-F] [-c separator] [-g generator number or -1] [-h] [-k ks_flag] [-l] [-L overlap] [-m multiply_p] [-n ntuple] [-p number of p samples] [-P Xoff] [-o filename] [-s seed strategy] [-S random number seed] [-n ntuple] [-p number of…
NAME did – What did you do last week, month, year? DESCRIPTION Comfortably gather status report data (e.g. list of committed changes) for given week, month, quarter, year or selected date range. By default all available stats for this week are reported. SYNOPSIS Usage is straightforward: did[this | last][week | month | quarter | year][opts]…
NAME dicar – Archive Binary Dictionary SYNOPSYS dicar -t bindic1 dicar -x bindic1 [ bindic2 ] dicar -r bindic1 bindic2 dicar -d bindic1 bindic2 DESCRIPTION dicar archives binary dictionary bindic1. The hyphen of each option may be omitted. [ TIONS ] -t Displays the dictionaries contained in binary dictionary file bindic1. Each displayed name of…
NAME dialog – display dialog boxes from shell scripts SYNOPSIS dialog –clear dialog –create-rc file dialog –print-maxsize dialog common-options box-options DESCRIPTION Dialog is a program that will let you to present a variety of questions or display messages using dialog boxes from a shell script. These types of dialog boxes are implemented (though not all…
NAME dia – a diagram drawing program SYNOPSIS dia [-c] [–credits] [-e OUTPUT] [–export=OUTPUT] [-L LAYER,LAYER,…] [–show-layers=LAYER,LAYER,…] [-h] [–help] [-n] [–nosplash] [-s WxH] [–size=WxH] [-t FORMAT] [–filter=FORMAT] [-v] [–version] [file …] DESCRIPTION Dia is used to create diagrams. Dia has a number of basic tools, like lines and boxes but can also dynamically load sheets. A sheet is a…
NAME dhcp_release – Release a DHCP lease on a the local dnsmasq DHCP server. SYNOPSIS dhcp_release <interface> <address> <MAC address> <client_id> DESCRIPTION A utility which forces the DHCP server running on this machine to release a DHCP lease. Send a DHCPRELEASE message via the specified interface to tell the local DHCP server to delete a…
NAME dhcp_lease_time – Query remaining time of a lease on a the local dnsmasq DHCP server. SYNOPSIS dhcp_lease_time <address> DESCRIPTION Send a DHCPINFORM message to a dnsmasq server running on the local host and print (to stdout) the time remaining in any lease for the given address. The time is given as string printed to…
NAME dh_usrlocal – migrate usr/local directories to maintainer scripts SYNOPSIS dh_usrlocal [debhelper options] [-n] DESCRIPTION dh_usrlocal is a debhelper program that can be used for building packages that will provide a subdirectory in /usr/local when installed. It finds subdirectories of usr/local in the package build directory, and removes them, replacing them with maintainer script snippets (unless…
NAME dh_update_autotools_config – Update autotools config files SYNOPSIS dh_update_autotools_config [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_update_autotools_config replaces all occurrences of config.sub and config.guess in the source tree by the up-to-date versions found in the autotools-dev package. The original files are backed up and restored by dh_clean. SEE ALSO debhelper(7) This program is a part of debhelper. AUTHOR Niels Thykier…
NAME dh_undocumented – undocumented.7 symlink program (deprecated no-op) SYNOPSIS Do not run! DESCRIPTION This program used to make symlinks to the undocumented.7 man page for man pages not present in a package. Debian policy now frowns on use of the undocumented.7 man page, and so this program does nothing, and should not be used. SEE…
NAME dh_ucf – register configuration files with ucf SYNOPSIS dh_ucf [debhelper options] [-A] [-n] [file …] DESCRIPTION dh_ucf is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating the postinst and postrm commands that register files with ucf(1) and ucfr(1). FILES debian/package.ucf List pairs of source and destination files to register with ucf. Each pair should be put…
NAME dh_testroot – ensure that a package is built with necessary level of root permissions SYNOPSIS dh_testroot [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_testroot is used to determine if the package has access to at least the level of root access that it declared it needed via the Rules-Requires-Root (R³) field. The following is how dh_testroot behaves based on…
NAME dh_testdir – test directory before building Debian package SYNOPSIS dh_testdir [debhelper options] [file …] DESCRIPTION dh_testdir tries to make sure that you are in the correct directory when building a Debian package. It makes sure that the file debian/control exists, as well as any other files you specify. If not, it exits with an error. OPTIONS…
NAME dh_systemd_start – start/stop/restart systemd unit files SYNOPSIS dh_systemd_start [debhelper options] [–restart-after-upgrade] [–no-stop-on-upgrade] [unit file …] DESCRIPTION dh_systemd_start is a debhelper program that is responsible for starting/stopping or restarting systemd unit files in case no corresponding sysv init script is available. As with dh_installinit, the unit file is stopped before upgrades and started afterwards (unless –restart-after-upgrade is specified,…