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Man page for bc

Monday, January 21st, 2008

bc Section: User Commands (1) Updated: . Index Return to Main Contents NAME bc - An arbitrary precision calculator language SYNTAX bc [ -hlwsqv ] [long-options] [ file ... ] VERSION This man page documents GNU bc version 1.06. DESCRIPTION bc is a language that supports arbitrary precision numbers with interactive execution of statements. There are ...

Man page for ident

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

IDENT Section: User Commands (1) Updated: 1993/11/09 Index Return to Main Contents NAME ident - identify RCS keyword strings in files SYNOPSIS ident [ -q ] [ -V ] [ file ... ] DESCRIPTION ident searches for all instances of the pattern $keyword: text $ in the named files or, if no files are named, the standard input. These patterns are normally inserted automatically by the RCS ...

Man page for c?

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

CP Section: User Commands (1)Updated: May 2006Index Return to Main Contents   NAME cp – copy files and directories   SYNOPSIS cp [OPTION]... [–T] SOURCE DEST cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY cp [OPTION]... –t DIRECTORY SOURCE...   DESCRIPTION Copy SOURCE to DEST, or multiple SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. –a, ––archive same as –dpR ––backup[=CONTROL] make a backup of each existing destination file –b like ...

Man page for ??

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

LN Section: User Commands (1)Updated: August 2006Index Return to Main Contents   NAME ln – make links between files   SYNOPSIS ln [OPTION]... [–T] TARGET LINK_NAME (1st form) ln [OPTION]... TARGET (2nd form) ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY (3rd form) ln [OPTION]... –t ...

Man page for netdump-server

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

NETDUMP–SERVER Section: System Programs (8)Updated: 14 Feb 2002Index Return to Main Contents   NAME netdump–server – handle crash dumps over the network   SYNOPSIS netdump–server [––port portnumber]          [––concurrent number]          [––pidfile path]          [––daemon]          [––secure <0|1>]          [––help] [––usage]   DESCRIPTION Listens to the network for clients that crash and uses the netdump protocol to recieve a memory dump and a stack trace. The memory dump and oops message are stored ...

Man page for ncftpget

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

ncftpget Section: User Commands (1)Updated: NcFTP SoftwareIndex Return to Main Contents   NAME ncftpget – Internet file transfer program for scripts   SYNOPSIS ncftpget [options] remote–host local–directory remote–files... ncftpget –f login.cfg [options] local–directory remote–files... ncftpget [options] ftp://url.style.host/path/name ncftpget –c [options] remote–host remote–file > stdout ncftpget –C [options] remote–host remote–file local–path–name ncftpget –c [options] ftp://url.style.host/path/name > stdout   OPTIONS   Command line flags: –u XX Use username XX instead of anonymous. –p XX Use password XX with the username. –P XX Use port number XX instead of the default FTP service port (21). –j XX Use account XX in supplement to ...

Man page for ncftpbatch

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

ncftpbatch Section: User Commands (1)Updated: NcFTP SoftwareIndex Return to Main Contents   NAME ncftpbatch – Individual batch FTP job processor   SYNOPSIS ncftpbatch –d ncftpbatch –l ncftpbatch –D   OPTIONS   Command line flags: –d Begin background processing of FTP jobs in the current user's $HOME/.ncftp/spool directory. This returns immediately, because a daemon process is spawned and ran in the background. –l Lists the contents of the user's job queue. –D This is like –d, except that ...

Man page for ncftpput

Monday, July 9th, 2007

ncftpput Section: User Commands (1)Updated: NcFTP SoftwareIndex Return to Main Contents   NAME ncftpput – Internet file transfer program for scripts   SYNOPSIS ncftpput [options] remote–host remote–directory local–files... ncftpput –f login.cfg [options] remote–directory local–files... ncftpput –c remote–host remote–path–name < stdin ncftpput –C remote–host local–path–name remote–path–name   OPTIONS   Command line flags: –u XX Use username XX instead of anonymous. –p XX Use password XX with the username. –P XX Use port number XX instead of the default FTP service port (21). –j XX Use account XX in supplement to the username and ...

Man page for ncftp

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

ncftp Section: User Commands (1)Updated: NcFTP SoftwareIndex Return to Main Contents   NAME ncftp – Browser program for the File Transfer Protocol   SYNOPSIS ncftp [host] ncftp [ftp://host.name/directory/]   DESCRIPTION The purpose of ncftp is to provide a powerful and flexible interface to the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol. It is intended to replace the stock ftp program that comes with the system. Although the program appears to be rather spartan, you'll find ...

Man page for netdump

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

NETDUMP–CLIENT Section: System Programs (8)Updated: 14 Feb 2002Index Return to Main Contents NAME netdump – send oops data and memory dumps over the network SYNOPSIS /etc/init.d/netdump {start|stop|status|restart|propagate} DESCRIPTION Loads and configures the netdump kernel modules. Once these are loaded, when the kernel crashes it will send the oops message and a dump of physical memory to the ...

Man page for LN

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

LN Section: User Commands (1)Updated: August 2006Index Return to Main Contents NAME ln – make links between files SYNOPSIS ln [OPTION]... [–T] TARGET LINK_NAME (1st form) ln [OPTION]... TARGET (2nd form) ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY (3rd ...

Man page for c??

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

CRL Section: OpenSSL (1)Updated: 2000–02–08Index Return to Main Contents   NAME crl – CRL utility   SYNOPSIS openssl crl [–inform PEM|DER] [–outform PEM|DER] [–text] [–in filename] [–out filename] [–noout] [–hash] [–issuer] [–lastupdate] [–nextupdate] [–CAfile file] [–CApath dir]   DESCRIPTION The crl command processes CRL files in DER or PEM format.   COMMAND OPTIONS –inform DER|PEM This specifies the input format. DER format is DER encoded CRL structure. PEM (the default) is a base64 encoded version of the DER form ...

Man page for texi2dvi

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

TEXI2DVI Section: User Commands (1)Updated: December 2004Index Return to Main Contents   NAME texi2dvi – print Texinfo documents   SYNOPSIS texi2dvi [OPTION]... FILE...   DESCRIPTION Run each Texinfo or LaTeX FILE through TeX in turn until all cross–references are resolved, building all indices. The directory containing each FILE is searched for included files. The suffix of FILE is used to determine its language ...

Man page for texindex

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

TEXINDEX Section: User Commands (1)Updated: December 2004Index Return to Main Contents   NAME texindex – sort Texinfo index files   SYNOPSIS texindex [OPTION]... FILE...   DESCRIPTION Generate a sorted index for each TeX output FILE. Usually FILE... is specified as `foo.??' for a document `foo.texi'.   OPTIONS –h, ––help display this help and exit –o, ––output FILE send output to FILE ––version display version information and exit   REPORTING BUGS Email bug reports to ...

Man page for ?

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

BASH_BUILTINS Section: User Commands (1)Updated: 2004 Apr 20Index Return to Main Contents   NAME bash, :, ., [, alias, bg, bind, break, builtin, cd, command, compgen, complete, continue, declare, dirs, disown, echo, enable, eval, exec, exit, export, fc, fg, getopts, hash, help, history, jobs, kill, let, local, logout, popd, printf, pushd, pwd, read, readonly, return, set, shift, ...

Man page for rdev

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

RDEV Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (8)Updated: 20 November 1993Index Return to Main Contents   NAME rdev – query/set image root device, RAM disk size, or video mode   SYNOPSIS rdev [ –Rrvh ] [ –o offset ] [ image [ value [ offset ] ] ] rdev [ –o offset ] [ image [ root_device [ offset ] ] ...

Man page for mpage

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

MPAGE Section: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (Local)Updated: 2004/05/30Index Return to Main Contents   NAME mpage – print multiple pages per sheet on PostScript printer   SYNOPSIS mpage [–1248aAcEfHloOrRStuUvVxX] [–b papersize] [–B[num[lrtb]]*] [–C [encoding]] [–da|p] [–D dateformat] [–F fontname] [–h header] [–j first[–last][%interval]] [–J startpageno] [–L lines] [–m[num[lrtb]]*] [–M[num[lrtb]]*] [–p[prprog]] [–P[printer]] [–s tabstop] [–W width] [–z printcmd] [–Z printcmd_args] [file...]]   DESCRIPTION mpage reads plain text files or PostScript documents and prints them on a PostScript printer with the text reduced in size so that several pages appear on one sheet of paper. This is useful for viewing ...

Man page for mpool

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

MPOOL Section: C Library Functions (3)Updated: 1993–06–04Index Return to Main Contents   NAME mpool – shared memory buffer pool   SYNOPSIS #include <db.h> #include <mpool.h> MPOOL * mpool_open (DBT *key, int fd, pgno_t pagesize, pgno_t maxcache); void mpool_filter (MPOOL *mp, void (*pgin)(void *, pgno_t, void *),      void (*pgout)(void *, pgno_t, void *), void *pgcookie); void * mpool_new (MPOOL *mp, pgno_t *pgnoaddr); void * mpool_get (MPOOL *mp, pgno_t pgno, ...

Man page for btree

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

BTREE Section: C Library Functions (3)Updated: 1994–08–18Index Return to Main Contents   NAME btree – btree database access method   SYNOPSIS #include <sys/types.h> #include <db.h>   DESCRIPTION The routine dbopen() is the library interface to database files. One of the supported file formats is btree files. The general description of the database access methods is in dbopen(3), this manual page describes only the btree specific information. The btree data ...

Man page for recno

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

RECNO Section: C Library Functions (3)Updated: 1994–08–18Index Return to Main Contents   NAME recno – record number database access method   SYNOPSIS #include <sys/types.h> #include <db.h>   DESCRIPTION The routine dbopen is the library interface to database files. One of the supported file formats is record number files. The general description of the database access methods is in dbopen(3), this manual page describes only the recno specific information. The ...