Archive for November, 2007
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
BRK
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (2)Updated: 2003-11-01Index
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NAME
brk, sbrk - change data segment size
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int brk(void *end_data_segment);
void *sbrk(intptr_t increment);
DESCRIPTION
brk()
sets the end of the data segment to the value specified by
end_data_segment,
when that value is reasonable, the system does have enough memory
and the process does not exceed its max data size ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
DIR
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: June 2006Index
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NAME
dir - list directory contents
SYNOPSIS
dir
[OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a, --all
do not ignore entries starting with .
-A, --almost-all
do not ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
DIFF
Section: GNU Tools (1)Updated: 22sep1993Index
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NAME
diff - find differences between two files
SYNOPSIS
diff
[options] from-file to-file
DESCRIPTION
In the simplest case,
diff
compares the contents of the two files
from-file
and
to-file.
A file name of
-
stands for
text read from the standard input. As a special case,
diff - -
compares a copy of standard input to itself.
If
from-file
is ...
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
DIALOG
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: Index
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NAME
dialog - display dialog boxes from shell scripts
SYNOPSIS
dialog --clear
dialog --create-rc file
dialog --print-maxsize
dialog
common-options
box-options
DESCRIPTION
Dialog
is a program that will let you to present a variety of questions or
display messages using dialog boxes from a shell script.
These types of dialog boxes are implemented
(though not all are ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
DIFF3
Section: GNU Tools (1)Updated: 22sep1993Index
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NAME
diff3 - find differences between three files
SYNOPSIS
diff3
[options] mine older yours
DESCRIPTION
The
diff3
command compares three files and outputs descriptions
of their differences.
The files to compare are
mine,
older,
and
yours.
At most one of these three file names may be
-,
which tells
diff3
to read the standard input for that file.
Options
Below is a summary of ...
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