Manuals or other information for system users detailing software features and functionality.
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meaning of some commands ? , the hackers play book 2 [on hold]
i don't understand what's the meaning of the -a in dpkg --configure -a and what's the meaning of the -y is apt -y install ? , i always find-letters that i never understand what's there meaning , can ...
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Traverse & Convert HTML based documentation directory to either TEXT or PDF
Documentation for a standard system package is contained in:
/usr/share/doc/rsyslog-5.8.10 (distros: RHEL 6/Centos 6)
however it is all *.html. I'd like to traverse all the files in the proper ...
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How do names in the dircolors database map to those in LS_COLORS?
From dircolors -p, some types seem to have names:
#NORMAL 00 # no color code at all
#FILE 00 # regular file: use no color at all
RESET 0 # reset to "normal" color
DIR 01;34 # directory
LINK 01;36 # ...
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Reinstall man pages & fix man
So in a recent fit of folly, I followed the instructions in this answer on the Ubuntu SE page since I wanted to remove most of the documentation. However, I didn't read the commands well enough and ...
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Linux command line tool to find specific programs
Can you please indicate me how do you find programs in the terminal without knowing the exact name?
As far as I remember, there was a command line tool that helps the user to find out other programs /...
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Is there a unix scripting file checking Key?
I hate to post such a stupid dumb question but is there a key that explains theese letters such as -n, -d, etc all mean ? I'm not sure how to ask the question so its best if I just explain what i'm ...
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On Line Man Pages from Terminal
With the risk of raising a question that might already have an answer, i would like to ask if anybody knows if and how is it possible to read man pages in my terminal for programs/apps that are not ...
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SIP simple client basic usage on the CLI
How do I add an account to the SIP SIMPLE client SDK in order to use the CLI tools?
SIP SIMPLE client SDK is a Software Development Kit for easy
development of SIP multimedia end-points with ...
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How can I review some release notes?
Two days ago I upgraded several packages. I remember reading something important after the packages were downloaded and before they were installed, but only now I think any action is necessary. ...
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why is apt docs is missing? how to get it back?
I'm reading the man page of apt and at the "see also" section it says:
SEE ALSO
apt-get(8), apt-cache(8), sources.list(5), apt.conf(5), apt-
config(8), The APT User's guide in /usr/...
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Getting started with “man”: a few questions [duplicate]
I'm having problems with man:
How can I display sections of a man-page? How can I figure out what sections a man page offers? According to man man -S is the parameter I need to get a list of "...
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How can I add a dot after a bold word in a manual?
What is the proper syntax for adding a dot that is not bold after a word in bold?
I need to write the following sentense without the dot in bold
word_in_bold. Other sentence
But
.B word_in_bold
...
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Debian Cinnamon vs Mint Cinnamon documentation
I want to better understand how to customize and use Debian Cinnamon.
1) Should I be using the Mint Cinnamon documentation, forums, and the like for my Debian Cinnamon, or is there a better source ...
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What do the options after a specific command mean?
How do I understand what the various options/flags mean?
For example:
1) uname -a - What does -a denote here?
2) pyang -f - What does -f denote here?
I just want to understand if there is some ...
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Heuristics for making use of or dismissing old documentation [closed]
Getting them as search results or following reference links, I often come across documentation produced some time ago. A few months, a few years. Sometimes the documents are marked as deprecated or ...
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1answer
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How and what style should I use when writing man pages? [closed]
My problem is, after a project nearing completion, it's time to focus on things like documentation, one of which is the man page.
Now, people may or may not dislike man pages, but it's pretty much ...
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Where can I find Centos 7 documentation? [closed]
Where can I find CentOS 7 documentation like this one?
https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/index.html
https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/sec-sel-enable-...
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How to use the man command to view documentation [duplicate]
I don't find man command to be much useful because I can't figure out what the flags are for and how all of them come together.
2
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1answer
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What command(s) can I use in a terminal to find a program that does a particular thing? [duplicate]
I often find myself alt-tabbing to google "How to do X in Linux".
Is there a way to search (say, man pages) in Linux to find tools that might be of use in a particular situation?
For example, ...
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2answers
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How can I learn the purpose of the various kernel processes?
(Related: What do the brackets around processes mean?)
I'd like to really understand what I'm looking at better. I'd rather not need to dig through actual kernel source code just for a quick ...
2
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1answer
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Why can't I fetch the gcc-doc package on Debian?
When I was testing some code snippets from Stack Overflow, I realized that I haven't any man-pages for GCC on my Debian System. But when I try to get them from Debian's repositories it outputs E: ...
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1answer
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Comprehensive documentation of wpa_supplicant.conf with description of all parameters and default values
I there any up to date, comprehensive documentation of wpa_supplicant which describes all possible parameters of wpa_supplicant.conf and it's default values.
The man page of wpa_supplicant.conf ...
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1answer
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How can I get a help message for zsh builtin's?
If I want to get a brief usage message for a bash builtin, I can use help <builtin> at a command prompt, e.g.
$ help export
export: export [-fn] [name[=value] ...] or export -p
Set export ...
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1answer
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What is the difference between man and --help? [duplicate]
I used both command lines and displayed the same output
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Centralized system information
Does anyone know of a software capable of keeping track of Linux/UNIX systems configurations centralized on a server? Possibly with a web GUI and history capabilities?
I am looking for something that ...
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1answer
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Where can I find detailed documentation on Linux signals?
When we do kill -l we get a list of all the signals that are supported, but is there any man page that describes each signal in detail?
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Purpose of “ASCII text, with overstriking” file format
After downloading the source code for Bash, I was browsing through the doc directory and came across the following files:
bash.1 is a regular troff file used to build the man page.
bash.0 is like a ...
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3answers
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How to get help for bash variables use from a command line?
Bash has some special or predefined variables, such as $? and $#.
How to know the meaning of those variables use build in command instead of searching online web pages?
I have try to use this:
...
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2answers
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Where is the hash command documentation?
When I type man hash it shows me man builtin.
I'm trying to understand this line:
hash -r 2>/dev/null || true
What hash -r does and what it returns.
Context:
export PATH="$PWD/bin:$PATH"
hash -...
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1answer
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Why is the circumflex/caret character used as a symbol for Ctrl?
I started using the Linux console a long time ago but I never questioned myself about the circumflex aka caret character (^). I'd like to ask why it's used as a replacement for the word Ctrl.
I ...
2
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1answer
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Where is wpa-conf documented?
I use wpa-conf in /etc/network/interfaces to make the WLAN interface automatically connect to the AP:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. ...
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How are GNU documents in PDF formats created?
Some GNU software doesn't offer PDF files for its manual, e.g. http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/find.html
Some does, and their PDF files have bookmarks/outlines, e.g. https://www.gnu.org/...
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2answers
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Reference manuals for network configuration on Fedora/CentOS/RHEL?
Every time I need to configure a network interface on Fedora/CentOS/RHEL I need to access its online documentation to check which configs and values I should use in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/...
2
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0answers
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Look up documentation on C types?
I'm reading over documentation on concurrency in C and trying to learn how to do things concurrently.
As I'm reading, I'm coming across types I've never come across before like tss_t, etc. Is there ...
1
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How do I convert the complete AMD64 Gentoo Handbook into a PDF from the command-line?
I have been writing shell scripts for converting the AMD64 Handbook of Gentoo Linux to PDF and this is my current shell script:
function ghand {
# Input 1 is the architecture
# Input 2 is the ...
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What is the “2001 article” for blocking “automated retrieval programs” referred to by the wget man page?
The wget man page states this, under the section for the --random-wait parameter:
Some web sites may perform log analysis to identify retrieval
programs such as Wget by looking for ...
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Is there any manual page for colored shell output?
You know, that colorized output made by special char sequences, for example:
echo -e "\e[34m Hello\n \e[0m"
This will produce word "Hello" colored in blue. To do this I had to search on the web, and ...
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1answer
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`man` pages for languages other than C (e.g, python, R, javascript, etc)?
man pages are a phenomenal resource while programming in C on Linux. While looking at someone else's code, if you see something foreign you can immediate research it in another terminal with
$ man 3 ...
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Is there a standard way of locating a package's config files?
Just curious if there is a standard way of locating where a package puts the config files for a program (assuming the documentation for the package doesn't include this information).
The reason way I ...
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Full list of tput options
I wanted to hide the cursor, and I was aware of tput command. I did search its man page. On searching the Internet, I found
$ tput civis # to hide the cursor
$ tput cnorm # to bring back the cursor
...
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Windows Internals for Linux [closed]
I've recently been reading Windows Internals version 6 (from Microsoft Press), and found it thoroughly enjoyable.
I'm now using Kubuntu on my work machine, and as such have some desire to learn a bit ...
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1answer
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How to do doxygen documentation?
My boss told me do documentation in doxygen and i am new to it. i did google and found you can do codes documentation in doxygen, but what about Details and text documentation which doesn't has codes. ...
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Where is the Programmer's manpage for the open C Function?
I am using debian8 (jessie) and I went to find read the manpage for open.
instead I got a warning:
$ man 3 open
No manual entry for open in section 3
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual ...
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1answer
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What is udev “urbnum”?
When making a query to the udev system, one attribute that can show up is the urbnum ie:
ATTRS{urbnum}=="538"
I've looked through the documentation, but cannot find any mention of it. Are the ...
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1answer
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What is docs package and how to use it?
There are some docs package in repository like:
glib2-docs
linux-docs
php-docs
python-docs
What I can undestand form its name (docs) is it kind like documentation or something for the package. And ...
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How to search the whole manual pages on Linux?
Sometimes I need to look up certain words through all the manual pages. I am aware of apropos, but if I understand its manual right, it restricts search to the descriptions only.
Each manual page ...
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2answers
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Matching btrfs documentation for the version I have?
I want to see if the formatting details I specified are doing what I thought, and generally inspect things after a huge amount of copying to the btrfs file system. Looking through docs, I see btrfs ...
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Where can I find a list of USB error codes?
Every time I boot Debian, the boot log shows a bunch of xhci_hcd problems, and messages like
usb 3-13: hub failed to enable device, error -22
usb 3-13: device descriptor read/8, error -61
I'm ...
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How to find documentation about macros in the manpages?
I've been working on a Routing Protocol and looking at legacy code for different routing protocols. I constantly find different macros where I it is very hard to find it in the header files because ...
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Is it safe to empty /usr/share/doc?
I don't need the man pages and documentations on my debian server. Is it save to empty that folder completely to free up some disk-space, by replacing all files in that folder with empty dummy files.
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