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 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 " " respectively) and will in turn escape backslashes and newlines in…
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…
NAME ddrescue – data recovery tool SYNOPSIS ddrescue [,options/] ,infile outfile /[,mapfile/] DESCRIPTION GNU ddrescue – Data recovery tool. Copies data from one file or block device to another, trying to rescue the good parts first in case of read errors. Always use a mapfile unless you know you won’t need it. Without a mapfile,…
NAME ddr_lzo – Data de/compression plugin for dd_rescue SYNOPSIS -L lzo[=option[:option[:…]]] or -L /path/to/libddr_lzo.so[=option[:option[:…]]] DESCRIPTION About LZO is an algorithm that de/compresses data. It is tuned for speed (especially decompression speed) and trades the size of the compressed file for it to some degree. There are variants with slow compression (yet still very fast decompression)…
NAME ddr_crypt – Data de/encryption plugin for dd_rescue SYNOPSIS -L crypt[=option[:option[:…]]] or -L /path/to/libddr_crypt.so[=option[:option[:…]]] DESCRIPTION About This plugin allows to en/decrypt data on the fly as it is written out by dd_rescue. It supports a variance of AES ciphers and uses the hardware acceleration on x86 (AESNI) and ARMv8 — if available — to provide…
NAME ddjvu – Command line DjVu decoder. SYNOPSIS ddjvu -format=fmt [options] [djvufile] [outputfile] DESCRIPTION Decode the DjVu file djvufile, produces the image file outputfile. The DjVu data is read from the standard input when argument djvufile is not specified or when it is equal to a single dash. Similarly, the output data is written to…
NAME ddd – The Data Display Debugger SYNOPSIS ddd [–help] [–gdb] [–dbx] [–ladebug] [–wdb] [–xdb] [–jdb] [–pydb] [–perl] [–debugger name] [—[r]host [[username@]hostname]] [–trace] [–version] [–configuration] [options…] [prog[core|procID]] but usually just ddd program DESCRIPTION DDD is a graphical front-end for GDB and other command-line debuggers. Using DDD, you can see what is going on “inside” another…
NAME ddbugtopbm – convert Diddle or DiddleBug sketches to PBM files SYNOPSIS ddbugtopbm EXAMPLES ddbugtopbm </path/to/palm/backup/dir/DiddleBugDB.pdb ddbugtopbm </path/to/palm/backup/dir/DiddleDB.pdb ddbugtopbm </path/to/palm/backup/dir/DiddleIDB.pdb DESCRIPTION This program is part of Netpbm(1) ddbugtopbm converts all sketches present in a database used by the PalmOS programs Diddle or DiddleBug into appropriately-named PBM files. The backup copy of DiddleBug’s database you should…
NAME ddate – convert Gregorian dates to Discordian dates SYNOPSIS ddate [+format] [date] DESCRIPTION ddate prints the date in Discordian date format. If called with no arguments, ddate will get the current system date, convert this to the Discordian date format and print this on the standard output. Alternatively, a Gregorian date may be specified…
NAME dd_rescue – Data recovery and protection tool SYNOPSIS dd_rescue [options] infile outfile dd_rescue [options] [-2/-3/-4/-z/-Z seed/seedfile] outfile dd_rescue [options] [–shred2/–shred3/–shred4/–random/–frandom seed/seedfile] outfile DESCRIPTION dd_rescue is a tool that copies data from a source (file, block device, pipe, …) to one (or several) output file(s). If input and output files are seekable (block devices or…