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 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,…
NAME debconf-set-selections – insert new values into the debconf database SYNOPSIS debconf-set-selections file debconf-get-selections | ssh newhost debconf-set-selections DESCRIPTION debconf-set-selections can be used to pre-seed the debconf database with answers, or to change answers in the database. Each question will be marked as seen to prevent debconf from asking the question interactively. Reads from a…
NAME debconf-mergetemplate – merge together multiple debconf template files SYNOPSIS debconf – mergetemplate[options][templates.ll…] templates DESCRIPTION Note: This utility is deprecated. You should switch to using po-debconf’s po2debconf program. This program is useful if you have multiple debconf templates files which you want to merge together into one big file. All the specified files will be…
NAME debconf-loadtemplate – load template file into debconf database SYNOPSIS debconf-loadtemplate owner file [file ..] DESCRIPTION Loads one or more template files into the debconf database. The first parameter specifies the owner of the templates (typically, the owner is the name of a debian package). The remaining parameters are template files to load. WARNING This…
NAME debconf-gettextize – extract translations of debconf templates into PO files SYNOPSIS debconf-gettextize [-v] [-h] [–podir=DIR] [–choices] [–merge] master [master …] DESCRIPTION The /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.templates files read by debconf contain English text and translations in the same file. But in source packages, translations are managed in separate files to help translators. In the initial implementation, a…
NAME debconf-getlang – extract a language from a templates file SYNOPSIS debconf – getlang lang master[translation] debconf – getlang– stats master translation[…] DESCRIPTION Note: This utility is deprecated; you should switch to using the po-debconf package. This program helps make and manage translations of debconf templates. There are basically three situations in which this program…
NAME debconf-get-selections – output contents of debconf database SYNOPSIS debconf-get-selections [–installer] DESCRIPTION Output the current debconf database in a format understandable by debconf-set-selections. To dump the debconf database of the debian-installer, from /var/log/installer/cdebconf, use the –installer parameter. AUTHOR Petter Reinholdtsen <pere [at] hungry.com> Index
NAME debconf-escape – helper when working with debconf’s escape capability SYNOPSIS debconf-escape -e < unescaped-text debconf-escape -u < escaped-text DESCRIPTION When debconf has the ‘escape’ capability set, it will expect commands you send it to have backslashes and newlines escaped (as "\\" and "\n" respectively) and will in turn escape backslashes and newlines in its…
NAME debconf-copydb – copy a debconf database SYNOPSIS debconf – copydb sourcedb destdb[–pattern = pattern][–owner – pattern = pattern] [–config = Foo:bar] DESCRIPTION debconf-copydb copies items from an existing debconf database into another, possibly new database. The two databases may have different formats; if so a conversion will automatically be done. OPTIONS sourcedb The name…
NAME debconf-communicate – communicate with debconf SYNOPSIS echo commands | debconf – communicate[options][package] DESCRIPTION debconf-communicate allows you to communicate with debconf on the fly, from the command line. The package argument is the name of the package which you are pretending to be as you communicate with debconf, and it may be omitted if you…
NAME debconf-apt-progress – install packages using debconf to display a progress bar SYNOPSIS debconf – apt – progress[–] command[args…] debconf – apt – progress– config debconf – apt – progress– start debconf – apt – progress– from waypoint– to waypoint[–] command[args…] debconf – apt – progress– stop DESCRIPTION debconf-apt-progress installs packages using debconf to display…
NAME deallocvt – deallocate unused virtual consoles SYNOPSIS deallocvt [,option/…] [N …] DESCRIPTION The command deallocvt deallocates kernel memory and data structures for all unused virtual consoles. If one or more arguments N … are given, only the corresponding consoles /dev/ttyN are deallocated. A virtual console is unused if it is not the foreground console,…
NAME ddrescuelog – tool for ddrescue mapfiles SYNOPSIS ddrescuelog [,options/] ,mapfile/ DESCRIPTION GNU ddrescuelog – Tool for ddrescue mapfiles. Manipulates ddrescue mapfiles, shows their contents, converts them to/from other formats, compares them, and tests rescue status. NOTE: In versions of ddrescue prior to 1.20 the mapfile was called ‘logfile’. The format is the same; only…