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 bc – An arbitrary precision calculator language SYNTAX bc [ -hlwsqv ] [long-options] [ file … ] DESCRIPTION bc is a language that supports arbitrary precision numbers with interactive execution of statements. There are some similarities in the syntax to the C programming language. A standard math library is available by command line option….
NAME bbox – prints out the bounding box of a rawppm or rawpbm image SYNOPSIS bbox [-l] [-r] [-h] [-V] [rawpbmfile] DESCRIPTION bbox reads a rawppm or rawpbm file and prints out the bounding box of the image (as postscript comment and in postscript points, i.e. 1/72dpi) as well as the high resolution bounding box….
NAME bbl2bib.pl – convert thebibliography environment to a bib file SYNOPSIS bbl2bib.pl [-d] [-u] [-o output] file OPTIONS [-d] Send debugging output to stdout -o output Output file. If this option is not used, the name for the output file is formed by changing the extension to ".bib" -u Do not clean URL fields. Normally…
NAME bbkeys – a general XWindow keygrabber SYNOPSIS bbkeys [OPTION] DESCRIPTION bbkeys is the keygrabber for the blackbox window manager. bbkeys handles all keybindings and keyboard shortcuts for blackbox. It uses blackbox’s Image classes for rendering its look and feel so that bbkeys will render itself to match whatever blackbox style is used. It is…
NAME baz – arch command line client tool SYNOPSIS baz command [ command_options ] baz command [-h|–help|-H] baz [-h|–help|-H|-V|–version] DESCRIPTION baz is an implementation of arch. arch is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions of files and directories (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why changes…
NAME bats – Bash Automated Testing System SYNOPSIS bats [-c] [-p | -t] test [test …] test is the path to a Bats test file, or the path to a directory containing Bats test files. DESCRIPTION Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework for Bash. It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs…
NAME bat – Bacula Administration Tool Console SYNOPSIS bat [options] DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the bat command, the Qt4 version of the Bacula Administration Tool console. This is a GUI full featured program similar the bconsole program, but it is graphical oriented and more features. OPTIONS bat [-s] [-c config_file] [-d debug_level] [-t]…
NAME bashmount – tool to mount and unmount removable media SYNOPSIS bashmount DESCRIPTION bashmount is a menu-driven bash script that can use different backends to easily mount, unmount or eject removable devices without dependencies on udisks or any GUI. An extensive configuration file allows many aspects of the script to be modified and custom commands…
NAME bashdb – bash debugger script SYNOPSIS bashdb [options] [–] script-name [script options] bashdb [options] -c execution-string bash –debugger [bash-options…] script-name [script options] DESCRIPTION "bashdb" is a bash script to which arranges for another bash script to be debugged. The debugger has a similar command interface as gdb(1). The way this script arranges debugging to…
NAME bashbug – report a bug in bash SYNOPSIS bashbug [–help] [–version] [bug-report-email-addresses] DESCRIPTION bashbug is a utility for reporting bugs in Bash to the maintainers. bashbug will start up your preferred editor with a preformatted bug report template for you to fill in. Save the file and quit the editor once you have completed…
NAME basepods – print out pod paths for the standard perl manpages DESCRIPTION This program uses your configuration’s "installprivlib" directory to look up the full paths to those pod pages. Any files in that directory whose names end in ".pod" will be printed to the standard output, one per line. This is normally used in…
NAME basenc – Encode/decode data and print to standard output SYNOPSIS basenc [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/] DESCRIPTION basenc encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. –base64 same as ‘base64’ program (RFC4648 section…
NAME basename – strip directory and suffix from filenames SYNOPSIS basename ,NAME /[,SUFFIX/] basename ,OPTION/… ,NAME/… DESCRIPTION Print NAME with any leading directory components removed. If specified, also remove a trailing SUFFIX. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -a, –multiple support multiple arguments and treat each as a NAME -s,…
NAME base64 – base64 encode/decode data and print to standard output SYNOPSIS base64 [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/] DESCRIPTION Base64 encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -d, –decode decode data -i, –ignore-garbage…
NAME base32 – base32 encode/decode data and print to standard output SYNOPSIS base32 [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/] DESCRIPTION Base32 encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -d, –decode decode data -i, –ignore-garbage…
NAME barrybackup – Barry Project’s backup program for the BlackBerry handheld SYNOPSIS barrybackup [-?][-d] DESCRIPTION barrybackup is a GUI application for backing up and restoring Blackberry handheld databases. The application allows for filtering of databases for both backup and restore, so not all databases need to be backed up at once, nor all restored. Backups…
NAME bareftp – graphical file transfer client SYNOPSIS bareftp [OPTION] … DESCRIPTION bareFTP is a graphical file transfer client supporting the FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). bareFTP is written in C#, targeting the Mono framework and the GNOME desktop environment. bareFTP is free and open source software released under…
NAME barcode – a stand alone program to run the barcode library SYNOPSIS barcode [-b – | string] [-e encoding] [-o – | outfile] [ other-flags ] DESCRIPTION The information below is extracted from the texinfo file, which is the preferred source of information. The barcode program is a front-end to access some features of…
NAME baobab – A graphical disk usage analyzer for the GNOME desktop SYNOPSIS baobab [OPTIONS…] [DIRECTORY] DESCRIPTION baobab (a.k.a. Disk Usage Analyzer) is able to scan either specific folders (local and remote) or devices, in order to give the user a tree representation including each directory size or percentage in the branch. It also auto-detects…
NAME Banshee – Media Management and Playback application Muinshee – Media Management and Playback application SYNOPSIS banshee [options…] [files|URIs…] muinshee [options…] [files|URIs…] DESCRIPTION Banshee is an media management and playback application for the GNOME desktop, allowing users to import audio from CDs, search their library, create playlists of selections of their library, sync music to/from…