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 deltainfoxml2solv – convert rpm-md’s deltainfo format into a solv file SYNOPSIS deltainfoxml2solv [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION The deltainfoxml2solv tool reads rpm-md’s deltainfo.xml data from stdin, and writes it as solv file to standard output. Some distributions name the input prestodelta.xml instead. Each delta rpm element is converted and added as repository:deltainfo element to the meta section…
NAME delp – The Free Pascal file deletion tool. SYNOPSIS delp [options] directory DESCRIPTION delp deletes files in the specified directory that are left over from a Free Pascal compilation process. It knows what files can be produced by the compile steps and deletes any such files it finds. At the end it gives a…
NAME dovecot-lda – Dovecot’s local mail delivery agent SYNOPSIS dovecot-lda [-ek] [-a address] [-c config_file] [-d username] [-f envelope_sender] [-m mailbox] [-o setting=value] [-p path] DESCRIPTION The dovecot-lda is a local mail delivery agent which takes mail from an MTA and delivers it to a user’s mailbox, while keeping Dovecot index files up to date….
Name delhead – Set FITS or IRAF header keyword values Synopsis delhead [-nv] <FITS or IRAF file[s]> kw1 kw2 … kwn Description Delete keyword entries from the header of FITS or IRAF image[s]. If a keyword does not already exist, ignore it. To delete keywords in a list of files, substitute @<listfile> for the file…
NAME delaunay – constructs the constrained Delaunay triangulation of the input SYNOPSIS delaunay [OPTIONS] < file.gts DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the delaunay command. This command constructs the constrained Delaunay triangulation of the input OPTIONS This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-‘). A summary of options…
NAME deja-dup – a desktop backup tool SYNOPSIS deja-dup [OPTIONS…] deja-dup –backup deja-dup –restore [FILES…] deja-dup –restore-missing DIRECTORY DESCRIPTION Déjà Dup is a simple backup tool. It hides the complexity of backing up the Right Way (encrypted, off-site, and regular) and uses duplicity as the backend. OPTIONS -h, –help Show help options –help-all Show all…
NAME deja-dup-preferences – manual page for deja-dup-preferences 34.3 SYNOPSIS deja-dup-preferences [OPTION…] OPTIONS -h, –help Show help options –help-all Show all help options –help-gtk Show GTK+ Options –version Show version –display=DISPLAY X display to use SEE ALSO deja-dup(1) Index
NAME dehtmldiff – get usable diff from an HTML page SYNOPSIS dehtmldiff [file…] dehtmldiff {[–help] | [–version]} DESCRIPTION dehtmldiff creates usable diff files from HTML pages. This is useful in the scenario where a patch has been posted to a mailing list viewable via a web page. The corrected diff is sent to standard output….
NAME deghosting_mask – Creates mask for removing ghosting in images SYNOPSIS deghosting_mask [options] <image1> <image2> … DESCRIPTION Takes a series of aligned photos, usually three or more, and generates masks for removal of ghosts – Data that only appears in a minority of photos. OPTIONS -o|–output <path> Prefix for output masks -s|–sigma <float> Standard deviation…
NAME defncopy – extract procedures and views from a Microsoft server. SYNOPSIS [-v ] [-U username ] [-P password ] [-S server ] [-D database ] [-i input_file ] [-o output_file ] Bo owner.object_name [owner.object_name … ] Bc DESCRIPTION is a utility program distributed with FreeTDS. It replaces a similar program of the same name…
NAME defaults – read or modify GNUstep user defaults SYNOPSIS defaults [ action ] DESCRIPTION The ‘defaults’ command lets you to read and modify a user’s defaults. This program replaces the old NeXTstep style dread, dwrite, and dremove programs. If you have access to another user’s defaults database, you may include ‘-u username’ before any…
NAME cryptdir – encrypt/decrypt all files in a directory SYNOPSIS cryptdir [ dir ] decryptdir [ dir ] INTRODUCTION cryptdir encrypts all files in the current directory (or the given directory if one is provided as an argument). When called as decryptdir (i.e., same program, different name), all files are decrypted. NOTES When encrypting, you…
NAME decrypt – 802.11b packet decryption tool SYNOPSIS decrypt (-p key | -f dictfile ) -m bssid -e infile -d outfile [-b ] [-o offset ] DESCRIPTION decrypt is a command line tool that takes 3 pieces of input, a pcap format input file, a WEP key, and a bssid (access point MAC address). If…
NAME bash, :, ., [, alias, bg, bind, break, builtin, caller, cd, command, compgen, complete, compopt, continue, declare, dirs, disown, echo, enable, eval, exec, exit, export, false, fc, fg, getopts, hash, help, history, jobs, kill, let, local, logout, mapfile, popd, printf, pushd, pwd, read, readonly, return, set, shift, shopt, source, suspend, test, times, trap, true,…
NAME debuginfo-install – install debuginfo packages and their dependencies SYNOPSIS debuginfo-install package DESCRIPTION debuginfo-install is a program which installs the RPMs needed to debug the specified package. The package argument can be a wildcard, but will only match installed packages. debuginfo-install will then enable any debuginfo repositories, and install the relevant debuginfo rpm. EXAMPLES Download…
NAME debugapp – A wrapper for openapp. SYNOPSIS debugapp [–find] [–gdb=…] application [arguments…] DESCRIPTION debugapp is a tool that helps you start or find applications by name in debugging mode. It acts as a wrapper around openapp , and calls openapp with the –debug option; we recommend using openapp directly. By default gdb is used…
NAME debian-distro-info – provides information about Debian’s distributions SYNOPSIS debian-distro-info [OPTIONS] OPTIONS –date=DATE date for calculating the version (default: today) -h, –help display help message and exit –alias=DIST print the alias (oldstable, stable, testing, unstable) relative to the distribution codename passed as an argument. Only distribution codenames composed of lower case ASCII letters are accepted,…
NAME debconf – run a debconf-using program SYNOPSIS debconf[options] command[args] DESCRIPTION Debconf is a configuration system for Debian packages. For a debconf overview and documentation for sysadmins, see debconf(7) (in the debconf-doc package). The debconf program runs a program under debconf’s control, setting it up to talk with debconf on stdio. The program’s output is…
NAME debconf-updatepo – update PO files about debconf templates SYNOPSIS debconf-updatepo [-v] [-h] [–podir=DIR] [–skip-pot] [–skip-merge] [–msgid-bugs-address=EMAIL] DESCRIPTION This program reads po/POTFILES.in to determine which master files need to be processed, then extracts new gettext strings into po/templates.pot and updates all po/*.po files. This script can be called either in the top-level directory, or in…
NAME debconf-show – query the debconf database SYNOPSIS debconf – show packagename[…][–db = dbname] debconf – show– listowners[–db = dbname] debconf – show– listdbs DESCRIPTION debconf-show lets you query the debconf database in different ways. The most common use is “debconf-show packagename”, which displays all items in the debconf database owned by a given package,…