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 afcat – Output contents of an image file to stdout. SYNOPSIS afcat [options] image [images] DESCRIPTION affcat outputs the contents of an image file to stdout. Image files that are not raw but are recognized by AFF will be output in raw format. Missing pages will not be padded, but the fact that they…
NAME aespipe – AES encrypting or decrypting pipe SYNOPSIS aespipe [options] <inputfile >outputfile DESCRIPTION aespipe reads from standard input and writes to standard output. It can be used to create and restore encrypted tar or cpio archives. It can be used to encrypt and decrypt loop-AES compatible encrypted disk images. aespipe encrypts and decrypts blocks…
NAME aecho – send AppleTalk Echo Protocol packets to network hosts SYNOPSIS aecho [ -c count ] ( address | nbpname ) DESCRIPTION aecho repeatedly sends an Apple Echo Protocol (AEP) packet to the host specified by the given AppleTalk address or nbpname and reports whether a reply was received. Requests are sent at the…
NAME advzip – AdvanceCOMP ZIP Compression Utility SYNOPSIS advzip [-a, –add] [-x, –extract] [-l, –list] [-z, –recompress] [-t, –test] [-0, –shrink-store] [-1, –shrink-fast] [-2, –shrink-normal] [-3, –shrink-extra] [-4, –shrink-insane] [-i, –iter N] [-k, –keep-file-time] [-p, –pedantic] [-q, –quiet] [-h, –help] [-V, –version] ARCHIVES… [FILES…] DESCRIPTION The main purpose of this utility is to recompress and…
NAME advpng – AdvanceCOMP PNG Compression Utility SYNOPSIS advpng [-l, –list] [-z, –recompress] [-0, –shrink-0] [-1, –shrink-fast] [-2, –shrink-normal [-3, –shrink-extra] [-4, –shrink-insane] [-i, –iter N] [-f, –force] [-q, –quiet] [-h, –help] [-V, –version] FILES… DESCRIPTION The main purpose of this utility is to recompress png files to get the smallest possible size. Please note…
NAME advmng – AdvanceCOMP MNG Compression Utility SYNOPSIS advmng [-l, –list] [-z, –recompress] [-x, –extract] [-a, –add RATE MNG_FILE PNG_FILES…] [-0, –shrink-store] [-1, –shrink-fast] [-2, –shrink-normal] [-3, –shrink-extra] [-4, –shrink-insane] [-i, –iter N] [-s, –scroll HxV] [-S, –scroll-square] [-e, –expand] [-r, –reduce] [-c, –lc] [-C, –vlc] [-f, –force] [-q, –quiet] [-v, –verbose] [-h, –help] [-V,…
NAME advdef – AdvanceCOMP Deflate Compression Utility SYNOPSIS advdef [-z, –recompress] [-0, –shrink-store] [-1, –shrink-fast] [-2, –shrink-normal] [-3, –shrink-extra] [-4, –shrink-insane] [-i, –iter N] [-f, –force] [-q, –quiet] [-h, –help] [-V, –version] FILES… DESCRIPTION The main purpose of this utility is to recompress the data present in the .png, .mng, .gz, .tgz and .svgz files….
NAME adplugdb – AdPlug database maintenance utility SYNOPSIS adplugdb [OPTION]… COMMAND [ARGUMENT]… DESCRIPTION adplugdb maintains database files in AdPlug database format. It can add, list and remove records within a central database, or merge a set of databases together into one single database. adplugdb always operates on a central database file. The location of this…
NAME adplay – AdPlay/UNIX console-based OPL2 audio player SYNOPSIS adplay [OPTION]… FILE… DESCRIPTION AdPlay/UNIX is AdPlug’s UNIX console-based frontend. It tries to play back all given FILEs, using one of many available output mechanisms. AdPlay/UNIX plays endlessly, if only one file is given. With multiple files, it plays them in a sequence and exits after…
NAME ADMesh – a program for processing triangulated solid meshes SYNOPSIS admesh [OPTION]… file DESCRIPTION ADMesh is a program for processing triangulated solid meshes. Currently, ADMesh only reads the STL file format that is used for rapid prototyping applications, although it can write STL, VRML, OFF, and DXF files. By default, ADMesh performs all of…
NAME addwords – Adding words to specified dictionary collectively SYNOPSIS addwords [{-cs|-cannaserver} cannaserver][-l file] dicname DESCRIPTION addwords adds words to specified dictionary according to the word information from the standard input. The standard input must be in a format of “Text Dictionary format” of Canna. dicname must be a “Text Dictionary format” which can be…
NAME addr2name, name2addr – perform DNS lookups from scripts SYNOPSIS addr2name [-46cmnr] [HOSTNAMES] name2addr [-46cn] [HOSTNAMES] DESCRIPTON Write addresses or canonical hostname of specified names to the standard output. If no names are specified via the command line, they are read from the standard input. OPTIONS -4 or –ipv4 Only try to perform IPv4 lookups….
NAME addr2line – convert addresses into file names and line numbers SYNOPSIS addr2line [-a|–addresses] [-b bfdname|–target=bfdname] [-C|–demangle[=style]] [-r|–no-recurse-limit] [-R|–recurse-limit] [-e filename|–exe=filename] [-f|–functions] [-s|–basename] [-i|–inlines] [-p|–pretty-print] [-j|–section=name] [-H|–help] [-V|–version] [addr addr …] DESCRIPTION addr2line translates addresses into file names and line numbers. Given an address in an executable or an offset in a section of a relocatable object, it uses…
NAME addftinfo – add information to troff font files for use with groff SYNOPSIS [ -asc-height n ] [ -body-depth n ] [ -body-height n ] [ -cap-height n ] [ -comma-depth n ] [ -desc-depth n ] [ -fig-height n ] [ -x-height n ] res unitwidth font –help -v –version DESCRIPTION addftinfo reads…
NAME adddebug – Modifies Makefile(s) to add debug info SYNOPSIS adddebug [-k] [-r] [-n] DESCRIPTION adddebug modifies the Makefile in the current directory (and optionally in its subdirectories) to add debug info (-g3). It will also remove optimisations (-O[1-9]). This utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit. OPTIONS -k Keep optimisations (do not…
NAME add-apt-repository – Adds a repository into the /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d or removes an existing one SYNOPSIS add-apt-repository [OPTIONS] [LINE] DESCRIPTION add-apt-repository is a script which adds an external APT repository to either /etc/apt/sources.list or a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ or removes an already existing repository. OPTIONS Note that the –list, –ppa, –cloud, –uri, –sourceslist, and…
NAME acyclic – make directed graph acyclic SYNOPSIS acyclic [ -nv? ] [ -o outfile ] [ file ] DESCRIPTION acyclic is a filter that takes a directed graph as input and outputs a copy of the graph with sufficient edges reversed to make the graph acyclic. The reversed edge inherits all of the attributes…
NAME activate-devpay – create the token and certificate files for Amazon S3 SYNOPSIS activate-devpay DESCRIPTION This program creates the token and certificate files for Amazon Devpay’s Simple Token Service (STS). You can then use those files with the S3 device. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does…
NAME acroread – Adobe PDF Viewer for viewing PDF files on X Window System. SYNOPSIS acroread [OPTIONS] [file] DESCRIPTION Adobe Reader is a free PDF reader, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. It is a tool for opening and using Adobe PDFs that are created in Adobe Acrobat. Although you can’t create PDFs in…
NAME acpixtract – ACPICA source code conversion utility SYNOPSIS acpixtract [<option>…] <acpidump-file> DESCRIPTION This manual page briefly documents the acpixtract command. The option list is taken from the acpixtract interactive help. acpixtract extracts binary ACPI tables from the output of the acpidump command (see the pm-tools package). A default invocation will extract the DSDT and…