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.
pw-metadata – The PipeWire metadata Synopsispw-metadata [options] [id [key [value [type ] ] ] ]DescriptionMonitor, set and delete metadata on PipeWire objects. Metadata are key/type/value triplets attached to objects identified by id. The metadata is shared between all applications binding to the same metadata object. When an object is destroyed, all its metadata is automatically…
pw-inspector – A tool to reduce the password list Synopsispw-inspector [-i FILE] [-o FILE] [-m MINLEN] [-M MAXLEN] [-c MINSETS] -l -u -n -p -s DescriptionPW-Inspector reads passwords in and prints those which meet the requirements. The return code is the number of valid passwords found, 0 if none was found. Use for security: check…
pw-dot – The PipeWire dot graph dump Synopsispw-dot [options]DescriptionCreate a .dot file of the PipeWire graph. The .dot file can then be visualized with a tool like dotty or rendered to a PNG file with dot -Tpng pw.dot -o pw.png. Options-r | –remote=NAME The name the remote instance to connect to. If left unspecified, a…
pw-cli – The PipeWire Command Line Interface Synopsispw-cli [command]DescriptionInteract with a PipeWire instance. When a command is given, pw-cli will execute the command and exit When no command is given, pw-cli starts an interactive session with the default PipeWire instance pipewire-0. Connections to other, remote instances can be made. The current instance name is displayed…
pw-cat – Play and record media with PipeWire Synopsispw-cat [options] [FILE] pw-play [options] [FILE] pw-record [options] [FILE] pw-midiplay [options] [FILE] pw-midirecord [options] [FILE]Descriptionpw-cat is a simple tool for playing back or capturing raw or encoded media files on a PipeWire server. It understands all audio file formats supported by libsndfile. Options-h | –help Show help….
pvf tools – utilities to convert various sound formats DescriptionThe pvf tools are a collection of tools to convert vgetty modem data to and from the ‘raw modem data’ format, and from that to and from various audio file formats (like .au or .wav). In addition, there are some tools to manipulate pvf files, like…
pva-dbschema-update – PHP VOMS-Admin(PVA) tool to update database schema to the latest version DescriptionThe pva-dbschema-update command update database schema to the latest version required for PHP VOMS-Admin operation. Synopsispva-dbschema-update [-f] [-h <host>] -d <database> -u <user> -p <password> Arguments-f force database schema update invocation (assuming database version is oldest)-h <host> database server host (localhost is…
pva-addvo – PHP VOMS-Admin(PVA) tool to add a new VO DescriptionThe pva-addvo command can be used to add new VO for serving by PHP VOMS-Admin. It also generates configuration files for voms-server for use in conjunction with PVA. Synopsispva-addvo [vo config] Argumentsvo config VO provisioning configuration fileExtended DescriptionThe pva-addvo command creates configuration files for PVA…
pv – monitor the progress of data through a pipe Synopsispv [OPTION] [FILE]… pv [-h|-V] Descriptionpv shows the progress of data through a pipeline by giving information such as time elapsed, percentage completed (with progress bar), current throughput rate, total data transferred, and ETA. To use it, insert it in a pipeline between two processes,…
puuencode – perl replacement for uuencodeSynopsis puuencode inputfile as_outputfileDescriptionPuuencode reads the inputfile and writes a printable version of it to STDOUT in uuencoded style. Nothing fancy, just a simple uuencode replacement. BugsThis implementation is much slower than most uuencode programs written in C. Its primary intention is to allow quick testing of the underlying Convert::UU…
puudecode – perl replacement for uudecodeSynopsis puudecode inputfileDescriptionUudecode reads a uuencoded inputfile and writes the decoded string to the file named in the uuencoded string. It changes the permissions to the mode given in the uuencoded string. BugsThis implementation is much slower than most uudecode programs written in C. Its primary intention is to allow…
puttytel – GUI Telnet and Rlogin client for X Synopsisputtytel [ options ] [ host ]Descriptionputtytel is a graphical Telnet and Rlogin client for X. It is a direct port of the Windows Telnet and Rlogin client of the same name, and a cut-down cryptography-free version of PuTTY. OptionsThe command-line options supported by puttytel are: –display display-name Specify the X display…
puttygen – public-key generator for the PuTTY tools Synopsisputtygen ( keyfile | -t keytype [ -b bits ] ) [ -C new-comment ] [ -P ] [ -q ] [ -O output-type | -l | -L | -p ] [ -o output-file ]Descriptionputtygen is a tool to generate and manipulate SSH public and private key pairs. It is part of the PuTTY suite, although it can also interoperate with the private key formats used by some other SSH clients. When you run puttygen, it does three…
putty – GUI SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client for X Synopsisputty [ options ] [ host ]Descriptionputty is a graphical SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client for X. It is a direct port of the Windows SSH client of the same name. OptionsThe command-line options supported by putty are: –display display-name Specify the X display on which to open putty. (Note this…
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purifyeps – make an Encapsulated PostScript file work with both dvips and pdflatex Synopsispurifyeps –help purifyeps –version purifyeps [–fontmap=.fmp file] [.eps input file [.eps output file]] purifyeps –make-man[=filename] [–section=section] purifyeps –make-ps-man[=filename] [–section=section] DescriptionWhile pdflatex has a number of nice features, its primary shortcoming relative to standard latex+dvips is that it is unable to read ordinary…
pure – the Pure interpreter Synopsispure [options …] [script …] [– args …] pure [options …] -x script [args …] Options-c Batch compilation. –ctags, –etags Create a tags file in ctags (vi) or etags (emacs) format. –eager-jit Enable eager JIT compilation. This requires LLVM 2.7 or later, otherwise this flag will be ignored. -fPIC, -fpic…
pump – accelerate remote compilation with distcc Synopsispump BUILD-COMMAND [ARGS] … eval ` pump –startup `; BUILD-COMMAND [ARGS] … ; pump –shutdown Descriptionpump is part of distcc. It is used for distcc’s pump mode. Distcc’s pump mode accelerates remote compilation with distcc by also distributing preprocessing to the servers. For a detailed description of pump…
pumount – umount arbitrary hotpluggable devices as normal user Synopsispumount [ options ] device Descriptionpumount is a wrapper around the standard umount program which permits normal users to umount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. pumount also supports encrypted devices which use dm-crypt and have LUKS metadata. If a LUKS-capable cryptsetup is installed, pumount…
pulseaudio – The PulseAudio Sound System Synopsispulseaudio [options] pulseaudio –help pulseaudio –version pulseaudio –dump-conf pulseaudio –dump-modules pulseaudio –dump-resample-methods pulseaudio –cleanup-shm pulseaudio –start pulseaudio –kill pulseaudio –check DescriptionPulseAudio is a networked low-latency sound server for Linux, POSIX and Windows systems. Options-h | –help Show help. –version Show version information. –dump-conf Load the daemon configuration file daemon.conf…