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 bitmap, bmtoa, atobm – bitmap editor and converter utilities for the X Window System SYNOPSIS bitmap [ -options … ] [ filename ] [ basename ] bmtoa [ -chars … ] [ filename ] atobm [ -chars cc ] [ -name variable ] [ -xhot number ] [ -yhot number ] [ filename ]…
NAME bison – GNU Project parser generator (yacc replacement) SYNOPSIS bison [,OPTION/]… ,FILE/ DESCRIPTION Bison is a parser generator in the style of yacc(1). It should be upwardly compatible with input files designed for yacc. Input files should follow the yacc convention of ending in .y. Unlike yacc, the generated files do not have fixed…
NAME bipmkpw – Password hasher for BIP SYNOPSIS bipmkpw DESCRIPTION bipmkpw converts a password into the double-hash used by bip. Copy the generated output from bipmkpw into bip config file. Password cannot contain spaces. SEE ALSO bip.conf COPYRIGHT Arnaud ‘nohar’ Cornet Loïc ‘Kyoshiro’ Gomez Thanks to jj, YS and lafouine, for hanging around while we…
NAME bip – BIP IRC Proxy SYNOPSIS bip [ -f config_file ] [ -n ] [ -h ] DESCRIPTION BIP is an IRC Proxy OPTIONS -n Don’t daemonize. Log into stderr. -f config_file Use config_file as the configuration file. If no config file is given, bip will try to open ~/.bip/bip.conf. -s homedir Set bip…
NAME biosdevname – give BIOS-given name of a device SYNOPSIS biosdevname [options] [args]… DESCRIPTION biosdevname takes a kernel device name as an argument, and returns the BIOS-given name it "should" be. OPTIONS -i, –interface Treat [args] as ethernet devs -d, –debug Enable debugging -p, –policy [physical|all_ethN] -P, –prefix [string] string use for embedded NICs in the…
NAME bioradtopgm – convert a Biorad confocal file into a portable graymap SYNOPSIS bioradtopgm [-image#] [imagedata] DESCRIPTION Reads a Biorad confocal file as input. Produces a portable graymap as output. If the resulting image is upside down, run it through pnmflip -tb . OPTIONS -image# A Biorad image file may contain more than one image….
NAME binlegs – Maintain the GMT index files for mgg supplement SYNOPSIS binlegs leglistfile [ -R ] [ -D ] [ -Ppath ] [ -V ] DESCRIPTION binlegs will make changes to the mgg supplement data base files gmt_legs.d and gmt_index.b for the legs listed in the leglistfile. Normally, only the data archivist will need…
NAME bindfs – mount –bind in user-space SYNOPSIS bindfs [options] dir mountpoint DESCRIPTION A FUSE filesystem for mirroring the contents of a directory to another directory. Additionally, one can change the permissions of files in the mirrored directory. OPTIONS -h, –help Displays a help message and exits. -V, –version Displays version information and exits. -u,…
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 bin_dec_hex – How to use binary, decimal, and hexadecimal notation. DESCRIPTION Most people use the decimal numbering system. This system uses ten symbols to represent numbers. When those ten symbols are used up, they start all over again and increment the position to the left. The digit 0 is only shown if it is…
NAME bin2obj – The Free Pascal binary to pascal include file converter. SYNOPSIS bin2obj [-aeouUz] -c constname infile DESCRIPTION bin2obj reads a binary file and converts it to a pascal typed constant declaration. The constant is an array of bytes (zero based), in which each byte has the value of the byte at the offset…
NAME bigloo v2.3 – `a practical Scheme compiler’ SYNOPSIS bigloo [ options ] [ input ] DESCRIPTION Bigloo is a Scheme compiler. Scheme is defined in an IEEE standard for the Scheme Programming Language but Bigloo does not entirely conform to it. The compiler produces either C files or Java class files. The C files…
NAME bidiv – bidirectional text filter SYNOPSIS bidiv [ -plj ] [ -w width ] [file…] DESCRIPTION bidiv is a filter, or viewer, for birectional text stored in logical-order. It converts such text into visual-order text which can be viewed on terminals that do not handle bidirectionality. The output visual-order text is formatted assuming a fixed…
NAME bidentify – Barry Project’s program to identify BlackBerry handhelds SYNOPSIS bidentify [-B busname][-N devname][-h][-v] DESCRIPTION bidentify scans the USB system for available BlackBerry devices and probes each one it finds, then sends the identifying information to stdout in a computer-friendly format. OPTIONS -B busname Specify the USB bus to search for Blackberry devices on….
NAME bibzbladd.pl – add Zbl numbers to papers in a given bib file SYNOPSIS bibzbladd [-d] [-f] [-e 1|0] [-o output] bib_file OPTIONS -d Debug mode -e If 1 (default), add an empty zblnumber if a zbl cannot be found. This prevents repeated searches for the same entries if you add new entries to the…
NAME bibutils – bibliography conversion utilities SYNOPSIS format2xml [OPTIONS] [file.format] xml2format [OPTIONS] [file.xml] DESCRIPTION The bibutils program set inter-converts between various bibliography formats using m[blue]Library of Congressm[][1]‘s m[blue]Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)m[][2]version 3.1. For example, one can convert RIS-format files to Bibtex by doing two transformations: RIS->MODS->Bibtex. CONVERTING TO MODS Overview Command Description bib2xml convert…
NAME bibus – Bibus is a bibliographic database SYNOPSIS bibus DESCRIPTION The bibus command does not take any arguments or options at the moment. bibus is a bibliographic database compatible with two database engines: – MySQL <http://www.mysql.com/> – SQLite <http://www.sqlite.org/>. It features * hierarchical organization of the references with user defined keys * multiuser-environment design (share databases between…
NAME biburl2doi.pl – convert URLs pointing to doi.org to DOIs SYNOPSIS biburl2doi [-D] [-o output] bib_file OPTIONS -D Do not delete URLs converted to DOIs -o output Output file. If this option is not used, the name for the output file is formed by adding "_cleaned" to the input file DESCRIPTION The script recognizes URL…
NAME BibTool – BibTeX file manipulation tool SYNOPSIS bibtool [options] [files] DESCRIPTION This manual is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for BibTool can be found in the BibTool Manual. BibTeX provides an easy to use means to integrate citations and bibliographies into LaTeX documents. But the user is left alone with the…
NAME bibtexu – UTF-8 Big BibTeX SYNOPSIS bibtexu [options] aux-file DESCRIPTION BibTeXu is the Unicode-compliant version of BibTeX. It is largely based on Niel Kempson’s BibTeX8, and it provides a better support for UTF-8 by integrating ICU library. Therefore, BibTeXu no longer requires the Codepage and Sort order ("CS") file; instead, the method of sorting…