Archive for category Linux Man Pages
SORT
Posted by Alex Costa in Linux Man Pages on January 4th, 2009
SORT(1) User Commands SORT(1) NAME sort – sort lines of text files SYNOPSIS sort [OPTION]… [FILE]… DESCRIPTION Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Ordering options: -b, –ignore-leading-blanks ignore leading blanks -d, –dictionary-order consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters -f, –ignore-case fold [...]
wvdial
Posted by Alex Costa in Linux Man Pages on January 2nd, 2009
WVDIAL(1) WVDIAL(1) NAME wvdial – PPP dialer with built-in intelligence. SYNOPSIS wvdial –help | –version | –chat | –config | option=value | –no- syslog | section… DESCRIPTION wvdial is an intelligent PPP dialer, which means that it dials a modem and starts PPP in order to connect to the Internet. It is something like the [...]
MKDIRHIER
Posted by Alex Costa in Linux Man Pages on January 1st, 2009
MKDIRHIER(1) MKDIRHIER(1) NAME mkdirhier – makes a directory hierarchy SYNOPSIS mkdirhier directory … DESCRIPTION The mkdirhier command creates the specified directories. Unlike mkdir if any of the parent directories of the specified directory do not exist, it creates them as well. SEE ALSO mkdir(1) X Version 11 imake 1.0.2 MKDIRHIER(1) Bookmark on Delicious Digg this [...]
MODINFO
Posted by Alex Costa in Linux Man Pages on January 1st, 2009
MODINFO(8) MODINFO(8) NAME modinfo – program to show information about a Linux Kernel module SYNOPSIS modinfo [ -0 ] [ -F field ] [ -k kernel ] [ modulename|filename ... ] modinfo -V modinfo -h DESCRIPTION modinfo extracts information from the Linux Kernel modules given on the command line. If the module name is not [...]
MKFS
Posted by Alex Costa in Linux Man Pages on January 1st, 2009
MKFS(8) MKFS(8) NAME mkfs – build a Linux file system SYNOPSIS mkfs [ -V ] [ -t fstype ] [ fs-options ] filesys [ blocks ] DESCRIPTION mkfs is used to build a Linux file system on a device, usually a hard disk partition. filesys is either the device name (e.g. /dev/hda1, /dev/sdb2). blocks is [...]
MKNOD
Posted by Alex Costa in Linux Man Pages on January 1st, 2009
MKNOD(1) User Commands MKNOD(1) NAME mknod – make block or character special files SYNOPSIS mknod [OPTION]… NAME TYPE [MAJOR MINOR] DESCRIPTION Create the special file NAME of the given TYPE. -Z, –context=CTX set the SELinux security context of NAME to CTX Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -m, –mode=MODE set [...]
MKSWAP
Posted by Alex Costa in Linux Man Pages on January 1st, 2009
MKSWAP(8) Linux Programmer’s Manual MKSWAP(8) NAME mkswap – set up a Linux swap area SYNOPSIS mkswap [-c] [-vN] [-f] [-p PSZ] [-L label] [-U uuid] device [size] DESCRIPTION mkswap sets up a Linux swap area on a device or in a file. (After creating the swap area, you need the swapon command to start using [...]
MORE
Posted by Alex Costa in Linux Man Pages on January 1st, 2009
MORE(1) BSD General Commands Manual MORE(1) NAME more – file perusal filter for crt viewing SYNOPSIS more [-dlfpcsu] [-num] [+/ pattern] [+ linenum] [file ...] DESCRIPTION More is a filter for paging through text one screenful at a time. This version is especially primitive. Users should realize that less(1) pro- vides more(1) emulation and extensive [...]
MV
Posted by Alex Costa in Linux Man Pages on January 1st, 2009
MV(1) User Commands MV(1) NAME mv – move (rename) files SYNOPSIS mv [OPTION]… [-T] SOURCE DEST mv [OPTION]… SOURCE… DIRECTORY mv [OPTION]… -t DIRECTORY SOURCE… DESCRIPTION Rename SOURCE to DEST, or move SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. –backup[=CONTROL] make a backup of each existing destination file [...]
MODPROBE
Posted by Alex Costa in Linux Man Pages on January 1st, 2009
MODPROBE(8) MODPROBE(8) NAME modprobe – program to add and remove modules from the Linux Kernel SYNOPSIS modprobe [ -v ] [ -V ] [ -C config-file ] [ -n ] [ -i ] [ -q ] [ -o modulename ] [ modulename ] [ module parameters ... ] modprobe [ -r ] [ -v ] [...]
