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.
manpage-alert – check for binaries without corresponding manpages Synopsismanpage-alert [path list] manpage-alert –help|–version Descriptionmanpage-alert searches the given list of paths for binaries without corresponding manpages. If no paths are specified on the command line, the path list /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/games will be assumed. Options–help, -h Show a summary of options. –version, -v Show…
manhole – Connect to a Twisted Manhole service Synopsismanhole Descriptionmanhole is a GTK interface to Twisted Manhole services. You can execute python code as if at an interactive Python console inside a running Twisted process with this. AuthorWritten by Chris Armstrong, copied from Moshe Zadka’s "faucet" manpage. Reporting BugsTo report a bug, visit http://twistedmatrix.com/bugs/ CopyrightCopyright…
manedit – UNIX Manual Page IDE Syntaxmanedit [section] [manual_page] [options] [GUI_options] DescriptionManEdit is an integrated UNIX manual page development environment (IDE) using the GIMP Tool Kit (GTK). Editing of UNIX manual pages is done using ManEdit’s Editor, which edits UNIX manual pages using a simplified version of the XML format, eliminating the need for the…
manconv – convert manual page from one encoding to another Synopsismanconv -f [from-code[:from-code…]] -t to-code [-dqhV] [filename] Descriptionmanconv converts a manual page from one encoding to another, like iconv. Unlike iconv, it can try multiple possible input encodings in sequence. This is useful for manual pages installed in directories without an explicit encoding declaration, since…
man2html – format a manual page in html Synopsisman2html [options] [file] Descriptionman2html converts a manual page as found in file (or stdin, in case no file argument, or the argument "-", is given) from man-style nroff into html, and prints the result on stdout. It does support tbl but does not know about eqn. The…
man – an interface to the system reference manuals Synopsisman [man options] [[section] page …] … man -k [apropos options] regexp … man -K [man options] [section] term … man -f [whatis options] page … man -l [man options] file … man -w|-W [man options] page … Descriptionman is the system’s manual pager. Each page argument given to…
man-recode – convert manual pages to another encoding Synopsisman-recode -t to-code {–suffix=suffix/|–in-place} [-dqhV] [filename] Descriptionman-recode converts multiple manual pages from one encoding to another, guessing the appropriate input encoding for each one. It is useful when permanently recoding pages written in legacy character sets, or in build systems that need to recode a set of…
malsym – compile a Malaga symbol file Synopsismalsym symbol-file malsym extended-symbol-file -use symbol-file DescriptionMalaga is a development environment for natural-language grammars based on the Left-Associative Grammar formalism. Malaga grammars can be used for automatic morphological and/or syntactic analysis. The program malsym compiles a Malaga symbol file. Give it the symbol file (suffix .sym or .esym)…
malshow – show Malaga’s results and/or debugging state Synopsismalshow DescriptionMalaga is a development environment for natural-language grammars based on the Left-Associative Grammar formalism. Malaga grammars can be used for automatic morphological and/or syntactic analysis. The program malshow is usually called by malaga(1) or mallex(1). It’s a GUI to display their results and/or debugging states. malshow…
malrul – compile a Malaga rule file Synopsismalrul symbol-file rule-file DescriptionMalaga is a development environment for natural-language grammars based on the Left-Associative Grammar formalism. Malaga grammars can be used for automatic morphological and/or syntactic analysis. The program malrul compiles a Malaga rule file. Give it the rule file that is to be translated (suffix .mor,…
malmake – compile a Malaga project Synopsismalmake [-new] project-file DescriptionMalaga is a development environment for natural-language grammars based on the Left-Associative Grammar formalism. Malaga grammars can be used for automatic morphological and/or syntactic analysis. The program malmake reads a project file, checks if all grammar files needed do exist, and translates all grammar files that…
mallex – generate a Malaga run-time lexicon Synopsismallex [-binary|-readable|-prelex] project-file mallex [-binary|-readable|-prelex] symbol-file rule-file [lexicon-file] [prelex-file] DescriptionMalaga is a development environment for natural-language grammars based on the Left-Associative Grammar formalism. Malaga grammars can be used for automatic morphological and/or syntactic analysis. The program mallex generates a Malaga run-time lexicon by letting allomorph rules process a…
malaga – natural-language word and sentence analysis Synopsismalaga [-morphology|-syntax] [-quoted] [-input input] project-file DescriptionMalaga is a development environment for natural-language grammars based on the Left-Associative Grammar formalism. Malaga grammars can be used for automatic morphological and/or syntactic analysis. The program malaga is Malaga’s user interface for analysing word forms and sentences, displaying the results and…
mako-render – renders Mako templates Synopsismako-render [FILE] DescriptionThis manual page documents briefly the mako-render command. mako-render is a standalone utility that can render Mako templates. Mako is a fast Python-powered template engine. If FILE is a single "-", standard input will be used as a template source. OptionsThese programs follow the usual GNU command line…
maketext – translate and make messages Synopsis maketext [OPTION] [–domain=TEXTDOMAIN] MSGKEY [PARAM…] maketext [OPTION] -s MSGID [PARAM…]DescriptionThe "maketext" script translates a natural language message into the user’s language, by looking up the translation in a message MO file, and process the plural transformation with Maketext. The "maketext" script is a command-line interface to Locale::Maketext::Gettext(3) (and…
makestrs – makes string table C source and header(s) Synopsismakestrs [-f source] [-i includedir] [-abioptions …] DescriptionThe makestrs command creates string table C source files and headers. If -f source is not specified makestrs will read from stdin. The C source file is always written to stdout. makestrs creates one or more C header files…
makeskel – generate description file for fpdoc. Synopsismakeskel [–descr=filename] [–disable-arguments] [–disable-errors] [–disable-function-results] [–disable-private] [–disable-protected] [–disable-seealso] [–emit-class-separator] [–help] [–lang=language] [–output=filename] [–update] –package=name –input=cmdline Descriptionmakeskel scans a Free Pascal unit source file and generates a skeleton description file for it. It generates nodes for all identifiers found in the interface section of the unit, although this behaviour…
makeself – An utility to generate self-extractable archives. Syntaxmakeself [options] archive_dir file_name label [startup_script] [args] DescriptionThis program is a free (GPL) utility designed to create self-extractable archives from a directory. OptionsThe following options are supported. -v, –version Prints out the makeself version number and exits. -h, –help Print out help information. –gzip Compress using gzip…
makepattern – make GMT color pattern from b/w pattern or icon Synopsismakepattern 1bit.ras | iconfile -Cfr/g/b -Cbr/g/b Descriptionmakepattern reads either a Sun 1-bit rasterfile OR a Sun icon file. It then accepts color choices for the foreground and background pixels and colorizes the pattern, writing it as a 8-bit Sun rasterfile on stdout. These patterns…
makempy – convert PDF or PostScript text to MetaPost graphics Synopsismakempy filenam Descriptionmakempy takes MetaPost output files (*.mpo) and translates them to *.mpy files. In order to include text as a graphic into a file typeset with (Con)TeX(t), you extract the text from Postscript of PDF files using pdftops(1) and pstoedit(1), creating a Metapost input…