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LINUX COMPLETE Command Reference Compiled by J. Purcell Red Hat Software, Inc.

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Overview Part I User Commands

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Part II System Calls

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Library Functions

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Part III Part IV Special Files

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File Formats

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Games

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Miscellaneous

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Part V Part VI Part VII Part VIII Administration and Privileged Commands

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Kernel Reference Guide

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User Commands

Introduction ......................................................................................................... 2 addftinfo ............................................................................................................... 2 afmtodit ................................................................................................................ 2 ansi2knr ................................................................................................................ 4 anytopnm ............................................................................................................. 4 appres ................................................................................................................... 5 ar .......................................................................................................................... 5 arch ....................................................................................................................... 8 GNU as ................................................................................................................ 8 asciitopgm ........................................................................................................... 10 atktopbm ............................................................................................................ 10 bash .................................................................................................................... 11 bdftopcf .............................................................................................................. 47 beforelight ........................................................................................................... 47 biff ...................................................................................................................... 48 bioradtopgm ....................................................................................................... 48 bitmap, bmtoa, atobm ........................................................................................ 49 bmptoppm .......................................................................................................... 57 brushtopbm ........................................................................................................ 57 cal ....................................................................................................................... 58 cat ....................................................................................................................... 58 chattr .................................................................................................................. 59 chfn .................................................................................................................... 60 chgrp................................................................................................................... 61 chkdupexe ........................................................................................................... 61 chmod................................................................................................................. 61 chown ................................................................................................................. 62 chsh .................................................................................................................... 63 ci ......................................................................................................................... 64 cidentd ................................................................................................................ 69 cksum ................................................................................................................. 70 clear .................................................................................................................... 70 cmuwmtopbm .................................................................................................... 71 co ........................................................................................................................ 71 col ....................................................................................................................... 76 colcrt ................................................................................................................... 77 colrm .................................................................................................................. 77 column ................................................................................................................ 78 comm.................................................................................................................. 78

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convdate.............................................................................................................. 79 cp ........................................................................................................................ 80 cccp, cpp ............................................................................................................. 81 crontab ................................................................................................................ 84 csplit ................................................................................................................... 85 ctags .................................................................................................................... 87 cu ........................................................................................................................ 88 cut ...................................................................................................................... 90 cvs ....................................................................................................................... 91 date ................................................................................................................... 106 dd ..................................................................................................................... 108 depmod, modprobe........................................................................................... 109 df ...................................................................................................................... 112 dig .................................................................................................................... 113 dnsquery ........................................................................................................... 117 domainname ..................................................................................................... 119 dsplit ................................................................................................................. 119 du ..................................................................................................................... 120 editres ............................................................................................................... 121 elvis, ex, vi, view, input ..................................................................................... 126 elvprsv............................................................................................................... 128 elvrec ................................................................................................................. 129 emacs ................................................................................................................ 130 emacstool .......................................................................................................... 134 etags .................................................................................................................. 135 expand .............................................................................................................. 137 find ................................................................................................................... 137 fitstopnm .......................................................................................................... 142 fmt .................................................................................................................... 143 fold ................................................................................................................... 143 free .................................................................................................................... 144 fsinfo ................................................................................................................. 145 fslsfonts ............................................................................................................. 145 fstobdf............................................................................................................... 146 fstopgm ............................................................................................................. 147 ftp ..................................................................................................................... 147 fuser .................................................................................................................. 154 g++.................................................................................................................... 155 g3topbm ........................................................................................................... 160 gawk ................................................................................................................. 161

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gcal ................................................................................................................... 173 gcc, g++............................................................................................................. 174 gemtopbm ........................................................................................................ 201 geqn .................................................................................................................. 202 getlist ................................................................................................................ 206 getopt ................................................................................................................ 207 giftopnm ........................................................................................................... 208 gindxbib ............................................................................................................ 209 glookbib ............................................................................................................ 210 gnroff ................................................................................................................ 210 gouldtoppm ...................................................................................................... 211 gpic ................................................................................................................... 211 gprof ................................................................................................................. 216 grefer................................................................................................................. 217 grep, egrep, fgrep .............................................................................................. 224 grephistory ........................................................................................................ 226 grodvi ............................................................................................................... 227 groff .................................................................................................................. 228 grog .................................................................................................................. 230 grops ................................................................................................................. 230 grotty ................................................................................................................ 235 gsoelim .............................................................................................................. 236 gtbl ................................................................................................................... 236 gtroff ................................................................................................................. 237 gzip, gunzip, zcatgzip, gunzip, zcat .................................................................... 248 gzexe ................................................................................................................. 252 head .................................................................................................................. 253 hexdump ........................................................................................................... 254 hipstopgm ......................................................................................................... 256 host ................................................................................................................... 257 hostid ................................................................................................................ 258 hostname .......................................................................................................... 259 hpcdtoppm v0.3 ................................................................................................ 260 httpd ................................................................................................................. 261 icontopbm ........................................................................................................ 262 ident ................................................................................................................. 262 ilbmtoppm ........................................................................................................ 263 imake ................................................................................................................ 264 imgtoppm ......................................................................................................... 267 inews................................................................................................................. 267 info ................................................................................................................... 269 innconfval ......................................................................................................... 270 insmod .............................................................................................................. 271 install ................................................................................................................ 272 installit .............................................................................................................. 273

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ispell, buildhash, munchlist, findaffix, tryaffix, icombine, ijoin ......................... 274 join ................................................................................................................... 282 kill .................................................................................................................... 283 killall ................................................................................................................. 284 ksyms ................................................................................................................ 284 last .................................................................................................................... 285 lbxproxy ............................................................................................................ 286 ld ...................................................................................................................... 287 lispmtopgm ....................................................................................................... 292 lkbib ................................................................................................................. 292 ln ...................................................................................................................... 293 lndir .................................................................................................................. 294 locate ................................................................................................................ 295 logger ................................................................................................................ 295 login .................................................................................................................. 296 look ................................................................................................................... 297 lpq .................................................................................................................... 298 lpr ..................................................................................................................... 299 lprm .................................................................................................................. 301 lptest ................................................................................................................. 302 ls, dir, vdir......................................................................................................... 303 lsattr .................................................................................................................. 304 lsmod ................................................................................................................ 305 lynx ................................................................................................................... 306 macptopbm ....................................................................................................... 309 make ................................................................................................................. 310 makedepend ...................................................................................................... 312 makestrs ............................................................................................................ 314 mattrib .............................................................................................................. 315 mbadblocks ....................................................................................................... 316 mcd................................................................................................................... 316 mcookie ............................................................................................................ 317 mcopy ............................................................................................................... 317 md5sum ............................................................................................................ 318 mdel .................................................................................................................. 318 mdeltree ............................................................................................................ 319 mdir .................................................................................................................. 319 merge ................................................................................................................ 320 mesg.................................................................................................................. 321 mformat ............................................................................................................ 321 mgrtopbm ......................................................................................................... 322 mkdir ................................................................................................................ 323 mkdirhier .......................................................................................................... 323 mkfifo ............................................................................................................... 323 mkmanifest ....................................................................................................... 324

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mknod .............................................................................................................. 325 mlabel ............................................................................................................... 325 mmd ................................................................................................................. 326 mmount ............................................................................................................ 326 mmove .............................................................................................................. 327 more ................................................................................................................. 327 mrd ................................................................................................................... 329 mread................................................................................................................ 329 mren ................................................................................................................. 329 mtest ................................................................................................................. 330 mtools ............................................................................................................... 330 mtvtoppm ......................................................................................................... 333 mtype................................................................................................................ 333 mv .................................................................................................................... 334 mwrite .............................................................................................................. 335 namei ................................................................................................................ 335 newaliases.......................................................................................................... 336 newgrp .............................................................................................................. 336 nl ...................................................................................................................... 337 nlmconv............................................................................................................ 338 nm .................................................................................................................... 339 nntpget ............................................................................................................. 340 objcopy ............................................................................................................. 341 objdump ........................................................................................................... 342 oclock ............................................................................................................... 344 od ..................................................................................................................... 345 passwd .............................................................................................................. 346 paste.................................................................................................................. 347 pbmclean .......................................................................................................... 348 pbmfilters.......................................................................................................... 348 pbmlife ............................................................................................................. 352 pbmmake .......................................................................................................... 353 pbmmask .......................................................................................................... 353 pbmpscale ......................................................................................................... 354 pbmreduce ........................................................................................................ 355 pbmtext ............................................................................................................ 355 pbmto10x ......................................................................................................... 356 pbmto4425 ....................................................................................................... 357 pbmtoascii ........................................................................................................ 357 pbmtoatk .......................................................................................................... 358 pbmtobg ........................................................................................................... 358 pbmtocmuwm .................................................................................................. 358 pbmtoepsi ......................................................................................................... 359 pbmtoepson ...................................................................................................... 359 pbmtog3 ........................................................................................................... 360

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pbmtogem ........................................................................................................ 360 pbmtogo ........................................................................................................... 360 pbmtoicon ........................................................................................................ 361 pbmtolj ............................................................................................................. 361 pbmtoln03 ........................................................................................................ 362 pbmtolps........................................................................................................... 362 pbmtomacp ....................................................................................................... 363 pbmtomgr ......................................................................................................... 363 pbmtopgm ........................................................................................................ 364 pbmtopi3 .......................................................................................................... 364 pbmtopk ........................................................................................................... 364 pbmtoplot ......................................................................................................... 365 pbmtoptx .......................................................................................................... 366 pbmtox10bm .................................................................................................... 366 pbmtoxbm ........................................................................................................ 367 pgmtoybm ........................................................................................................ 367 pbmtozinc ......................................................................................................... 367 pbmupc ............................................................................................................ 368 pcxtoppm .......................................................................................................... 368 pfbtops.............................................................................................................. 369 pgmbentley ....................................................................................................... 369 pgmcrater .......................................................................................................... 370 pgmedge ........................................................................................................... 371 pgmenhance ...................................................................................................... 371 pgmhist ............................................................................................................. 372 pgmkernel ......................................................................................................... 372 pgmnoise .......................................................................................................... 373 pgmnorm .......................................................................................................... 373 pgmoil .............................................................................................................. 374 pgmramp .......................................................................................................... 374 pgmtexture ........................................................................................................ 375 pgmtofs ............................................................................................................. 376 pgmtolispm ....................................................................................................... 376 pgmtopbm ........................................................................................................ 377 pgmtoppm ........................................................................................................ 378 pi1toppm .......................................................................................................... 378 pi3topbm .......................................................................................................... 379 picttoppm ......................................................................................................... 379 pjtoppm ............................................................................................................ 381 pktopbm ........................................................................................................... 381 pnmalias............................................................................................................ 381 pnmarith ........................................................................................................... 382 pnmcat .............................................................................................................. 383 pnmcomp ......................................................................................................... 383 pnmconvol ........................................................................................................ 384

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pnmcrop ........................................................................................................... 385 pnmcut ............................................................................................................. 385 pnmdepth ......................................................................................................... 385 pnmenlarge ....................................................................................................... 386 pnmfile ............................................................................................................. 386 pnmflip ............................................................................................................. 387 pnmgamma ....................................................................................................... 387 pnmhistmap ...................................................................................................... 388 pnmindex .......................................................................................................... 388 pnminvert ......................................................................................................... 389 pnmmargin ....................................................................................................... 389 pnmnlfilt ........................................................................................................... 390 pnmnoraw ........................................................................................................ 391 pnmpad ............................................................................................................ 392 pnmpaste .......................................................................................................... 392 pnmrotate ......................................................................................................... 393 pnmscale ........................................................................................................... 393 pnmshear .......................................................................................................... 394 pnmsmooth ...................................................................................................... 395 pnmtile ............................................................................................................. 395 pnmtoddif ......................................................................................................... 396 pnmtofits .......................................................................................................... 396 pnmtops............................................................................................................ 397 pnmtorast ......................................................................................................... 398 pnmtosgi ........................................................................................................... 398 pnmtosir ........................................................................................................... 399 pnmtotiff .......................................................................................................... 399 pnmtoxwd ........................................................................................................ 400 ppm3d .............................................................................................................. 400 ppmbrighten ..................................................................................................... 401 ppmchange ....................................................................................................... 401 ppmdim ............................................................................................................ 402 ppmdist ............................................................................................................. 402 ppmdither ......................................................................................................... 403 ppmflash ........................................................................................................... 404 ppmforge .......................................................................................................... 404 ppmhist ............................................................................................................. 408 ppmmake .......................................................................................................... 408 ppmmix ............................................................................................................ 408 ppmnorm .......................................................................................................... 409 ppmntsc ............................................................................................................ 409 ppmpat ............................................................................................................. 410 ppmquant ......................................................................................................... 411 ppmquantall...................................................................................................... 412 ppmqvga ........................................................................................................... 412

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ppmrelief .......................................................................................................... 413 ppmshift ........................................................................................................... 413 ppmspread ........................................................................................................ 414 ppmtoacad ........................................................................................................ 414 ppmtobmp ........................................................................................................ 416 ppmtogif ........................................................................................................... 416 ppmtoicr ........................................................................................................... 417 ppmtoilbm ........................................................................................................ 418 ppmtomap ........................................................................................................ 419 ppmtomitsu ...................................................................................................... 420 ppmtopcx .......................................................................................................... 421 ppmtopgm ........................................................................................................ 421 ppmtopi1 .......................................................................................................... 422 ppmtopict ......................................................................................................... 422 ppmtopj ............................................................................................................ 423 ppmtopjxl ......................................................................................................... 424 ppmtopuzz ........................................................................................................ 424 ppmtorgb3 ........................................................................................................ 425 ppmtosixel ........................................................................................................ 425 ppmtotga .......................................................................................................... 426 ppmtouil ........................................................................................................... 427 ppmtoxpm ........................................................................................................ 427 ppmtoyuv ......................................................................................................... 428 ppmtoyuvsplit ................................................................................................... 428 pr ...................................................................................................................... 429 ps ...................................................................................................................... 430 psbb .................................................................................................................. 433 psidtopgm ......................................................................................................... 433 pstopnm ............................................................................................................ 434 pstree ................................................................................................................ 435 psupdate ........................................................................................................... 436 qrttoppm .......................................................................................................... 436 quota................................................................................................................. 437 ranlib ................................................................................................................ 437 rasttopnm ......................................................................................................... 438 rawtopgm .......................................................................................................... 439 rawtoppm ......................................................................................................... 439 rcp .................................................................................................................... 440 rcs ..................................................................................................................... 441 rcsclean ............................................................................................................. 443 rcsdiff ................................................................................................................ 445 rcsfreeze ............................................................................................................ 446 rcsintro ............................................................................................................. 447 rcsmerge ............................................................................................................ 449 rdist .................................................................................................................. 451

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reconfig ............................................................................................................. 454 ref ..................................................................................................................... 455 reset .................................................................................................................. 456 resize ................................................................................................................. 456 rev..................................................................................................................... 457 rgb3toppm ........................................................................................................ 457 rlog ................................................................................................................... 458 rlogin ................................................................................................................ 460 rm ..................................................................................................................... 461 rmdir ................................................................................................................ 462 rmmod .............................................................................................................. 462 rnews ................................................................................................................ 463 rpcgen ............................................................................................................... 464 rsh ..................................................................................................................... 466 rstart ................................................................................................................. 467 rstartd ............................................................................................................... 468 rup .................................................................................................................... 472 rusers ................................................................................................................ 472 rwall .................................................................................................................. 473 rwho ................................................................................................................. 474 script ................................................................................................................. 474 sed .................................................................................................................... 475 sessreg ............................................................................................................... 480 setterm .............................................................................................................. 482 sgitopnm ........................................................................................................... 483 shar ................................................................................................................... 484 shlock................................................................................................................ 487 showrgb ............................................................................................................ 488 shrinkfile ........................................................................................................... 488 sirtopnm ........................................................................................................... 488 size .................................................................................................................... 489 sldtoppm ........................................................................................................... 490 smproxy ............................................................................................................ 491 sort .................................................................................................................... 492 spctoppm .......................................................................................................... 494 split ................................................................................................................... 494 spottopgm ......................................................................................................... 495 sputoppm .......................................................................................................... 495 sq ...................................................................................................................... 496 startx ................................................................................................................. 496 strings ............................................................................................................... 498 strip .................................................................................................................. 499 subst ................................................................................................................. 500 sum ................................................................................................................... 501 SuperProbe ....................................................................................................... 501

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tac ..................................................................................................................... 503 tail .................................................................................................................... 504 talk .................................................................................................................... 505 tcal .................................................................................................................... 506 telnet ................................................................................................................. 507 tfmtodit ............................................................................................................ 513 tftp .................................................................................................................... 514 tgatoppm .......................................................................................................... 515 tifftopnm .......................................................................................................... 515 tin, rtin, cdtin, tind ........................................................................................... 516 tload.................................................................................................................. 533 top .................................................................................................................... 533 touch ................................................................................................................ 536 tr ....................................................................................................................... 536 tset, reset ........................................................................................................... 539 tsort .................................................................................................................. 542 twm .................................................................................................................. 542 txt2gcal ............................................................................................................. 558 ul ...................................................................................................................... 558 unexpand .......................................................................................................... 559 uniq .................................................................................................................. 560 unshar ............................................................................................................... 560 updatedb ........................................................................................................... 561 uptime .............................................................................................................. 562 userlist ............................................................................................................... 563 uucp .................................................................................................................. 563 uuencode .......................................................................................................... 565 uustat ................................................................................................................ 566 uux.................................................................................................................... 569 uuxqt ................................................................................................................ 572 w....................................................................................................................... 573 wall ................................................................................................................... 574 wc ..................................................................................................................... 574 whereis .............................................................................................................. 575 write.................................................................................................................. 576 x11perf.............................................................................................................. 577 x11perfcomp ..................................................................................................... 585 xargs.................................................................................................................. 586 xauth ................................................................................................................. 587 xbmtopbm ........................................................................................................ 592 xcmsdb .............................................................................................................. 592 xclock ................................................................................................................ 593 xclipboard ......................................................................................................... 595 xconsole ............................................................................................................ 597 xcutsel ............................................................................................................... 598

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xdm .................................................................................................................. 599 xdpyinfo ............................................................................................................ 614 Xf86_Accel ....................................................................................................... 614 XF86_Mono ..................................................................................................... 624 XF86_SVGA .................................................................................................... 627 XF86_VGA16 .................................................................................................. 631 xf86config ......................................................................................................... 633 xfd .................................................................................................................... 633 XFree86 ............................................................................................................ 636 xfs ..................................................................................................................... 641 xhost ................................................................................................................. 643 xieperf ............................................................................................................... 645 ximtoppm ......................................................................................................... 654 xinetd................................................................................................................ 655 xinit .................................................................................................................. 664 xkill ................................................................................................................... 666 xlogo ................................................................................................................. 667 xlsatoms ............................................................................................................ 668 xlsclients............................................................................................................ 669 xlsfonts.............................................................................................................. 670 xmag ................................................................................................................. 671 xmkmf .............................................................................................................. 672 xmodmap .......................................................................................................... 672 xon .................................................................................................................... 676 xpmtoppm ........................................................................................................ 677 xprop ................................................................................................................ 677 xrdb .................................................................................................................. 681 xrefresh ............................................................................................................. 684 Xserver .............................................................................................................. 685 xset .................................................................................................................... 690 xsetroot ............................................................................................................. 693 xsm ................................................................................................................... 694 xsmclient ........................................................................................................... 698 xstdcmap ........................................................................................................... 699 xterm ................................................................................................................ 700 Xvfb .................................................................................................................. 717 xvidtune ............................................................................................................ 719 xvminitoppm .................................................................................................... 720 xwd ................................................................................................................... 721 xwdtopnm ........................................................................................................ 722 xwininfo ............................................................................................................ 722 xwud ................................................................................................................. 725 ybmtopbm ........................................................................................................ 726 ytalk .................................................................................................................. 727 yuvplittoppm .................................................................................................... 730

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yuvtoppm ......................................................................................................... 731 zcmp, zdiff ........................................................................................................ 731 zeisstopnm ........................................................................................................ 732 zforce ................................................................................................................ 732 zgrep ................................................................................................................. 733 zmore ................................................................................................................ 733 znew.................................................................................................................. 734

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System Calls

intro .................................................................................................................. 738 exit .................................................................................................................... 739 accept ................................................................................................................ 740 access ................................................................................................................ 741 acct ................................................................................................................... 742 adjtimex ............................................................................................................ 742 alarm ................................................................................................................. 744 bdflush .............................................................................................................. 744 bind .................................................................................................................. 745 brk, sbrk............................................................................................................ 746 cacheflush ......................................................................................................... 746 chdir, fchdir ...................................................................................................... 747 chmod, fchmod................................................................................................. 748 chown, fchown ................................................................................................. 749 chroot ............................................................................................................... 750 clone ................................................................................................................. 751 close .................................................................................................................. 752 connect ............................................................................................................. 752 dup, dup2 ......................................................................................................... 753 execve................................................................................................................ 754 fcntl .................................................................................................................. 755 fdatasync ........................................................................................................... 756 flock .................................................................................................................. 757 fork, vfork ......................................................................................................... 758 fsync ................................................................................................................. 758 getdents ............................................................................................................ 759 getdomainname, setdomainname ...................................................................... 760 getdtablesize ...................................................................................................... 760 getgid, getegid ................................................................................................... 761 getgroups, setgroups .......................................................................................... 761 gethostid, sethostid ........................................................................................... 762 gethostname, sethostname ................................................................................. 763 getitimer, setitimer ............................................................................................ 763 getpagesize ........................................................................................................ 765 getpeername ...................................................................................................... 765 getpid, getppid .................................................................................................. 766 getpriority, setpriority ....................................................................................... 766

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getrlimit, getrusage, setrlimit ............................................................................. 767 getsid ................................................................................................................ 768 getsockname...................................................................................................... 769 getsockopt, setsockopt ....................................................................................... 769 gettimeofday, settimeofday................................................................................ 772 getuid, geteuid .................................................................................................. 773 idle .................................................................................................................... 774 ioctl................................................................................................................... 774 ioperm .............................................................................................................. 788 iopl ................................................................................................................... 788 ipc ..................................................................................................................... 789 kill .................................................................................................................... 790 killpg................................................................................................................. 790 link ................................................................................................................... 791 listen ................................................................................................................. 792 llseek ................................................................................................................. 793 lseek .................................................................................................................. 793 mkdir ................................................................................................................ 794 mknod .............................................................................................................. 795 mlock ................................................................................................................ 796 mlockall ............................................................................................................ 797 mmap, munmap ............................................................................................... 799 modify_ldt ........................................................................................................ 800 get_kernel_syms, create_module, init_module, delete_module ......................... 800 mount, umount ................................................................................................ 802 mprotect ........................................................................................................... 804 mremap ............................................................................................................ 805 msgctl ............................................................................................................... 806 msgget ............................................................................................................... 807 msgop ............................................................................................................... 808 msync ............................................................................................................... 811 munlock ............................................................................................................ 811 munlockall ........................................................................................................ 812 nanosleep .......................................................................................................... 813 nice ................................................................................................................... 814 oldfstat, oldlstat, oldstat, oldolduname, olduname ............................................ 814 open, creat ........................................................................................................ 815 outb, outw, outl, outsb, outsw, outsl ................................................................. 816 pause ................................................................................................................. 817 personality ........................................................................................................ 817 phys .................................................................................................................. 818 pipe................................................................................................................... 818 profil ................................................................................................................. 819 ptrace ................................................................................................................ 820 quotactl ............................................................................................................. 821

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read ................................................................................................................... 822 readdir .............................................................................................................. 823 readlink ............................................................................................................. 823 readv, writev...................................................................................................... 824 reboot ............................................................................................................... 825 recv, recvfrom, recvmsg ..................................................................................... 826 rename .............................................................................................................. 828 rmdir ................................................................................................................ 829 sched_get_priority_max, sched_get_priority_min ............................................. 830 sched_rr_get_interval ........................................................................................ 831 sched_setparam, sched_getparam ...................................................................... 832 sched_setscheduler, sched_getscheduler ............................................................ 833 sched_yield ....................................................................................................... 835 select, FD_CLR, FD_ISSET , FD_SET , FD_ZERO ......................................... 835 semctl ................................................................................................................ 837 semget ............................................................................................................... 839 semop ............................................................................................................... 840 send, sendto, sendmsg ....................................................................................... 842 setfsgid .............................................................................................................. 843 setfsuid .............................................................................................................. 844 setgid ................................................................................................................ 845 setpgid, getpgid, setpgrp, getpgrp ...................................................................... 845 setregid, setegid ................................................................................................. 846 setreuid, seteuid ................................................................................................ 847 setsid ................................................................................................................. 848 setuid ................................................................................................................ 848 setup ................................................................................................................. 849 shmctl ............................................................................................................... 849 shmget .............................................................................................................. 851 shmop ............................................................................................................... 853 shutdown .......................................................................................................... 855 sigaction, sigprocmask, sigpending, sigsuspend.................................................. 855 signal ................................................................................................................. 857 sigblock, siggetmask, sigsetmask, sigmask .......................................................... 858 sigpause ............................................................................................................. 858 sigreturn ............................................................................................................ 859 sigvec ................................................................................................................ 860 socket ................................................................................................................ 860 socketcall ........................................................................................................... 862 socketpair .......................................................................................................... 862 stat, fstat, lstat ................................................................................................... 863 statfs, fstatfs....................................................................................................... 865 stime ................................................................................................................. 866 swapon, swapoff ................................................................................................ 866 symlink ............................................................................................................. 867

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sync ................................................................................................................... 869 sysctl ................................................................................................................. 869 sysfs................................................................................................................... 871 sysinfo ............................................................................................................... 871 syslog ................................................................................................................ 872 termios, tcgetattr, tcsetattr, tcsendbreak, tcdrain, tcflush, tcflow, cfgetospeed, cfgetispeed, cfsetispeed, cfsetospeed, tcgetpgrp, tcsetpgrp ............................... 874 time .................................................................................................................. 878 times ................................................................................................................. 878 truncate, ftruncate ............................................................................................. 879 umask ............................................................................................................... 880 uname ............................................................................................................... 880 none.................................................................................................................. 881 afs_syscall, break, gtty, lock, mpx, prof, quotactl, stty, ustat .............................. 881 unlink ............................................................................................................... 882 uselib ................................................................................................................ 883 ustat .................................................................................................................. 883 utime, utimes .................................................................................................... 884 vhangup ............................................................................................................ 885 vm86 ................................................................................................................ 885 wait, waitpid ..................................................................................................... 886 wait3, wait4 ...................................................................................................... 888 write.................................................................................................................. 889

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Library Functions

Intro ................................................................................................................. 892 abort ................................................................................................................. 892 abs .................................................................................................................... 892 acos ................................................................................................................... 893 acosh ................................................................................................................. 893 alloca................................................................................................................. 894 asin ................................................................................................................... 894 asinh ................................................................................................................. 895 assert ................................................................................................................. 895 atan ................................................................................................................... 896 atan2 ................................................................................................................. 896 atanh ................................................................................................................. 897 atexit ................................................................................................................. 897 atof ................................................................................................................... 898 atoi .................................................................................................................... 898 atol .................................................................................................................... 899 bcmp................................................................................................................. 899 bcopy ................................................................................................................ 900 bsearch .............................................................................................................. 900 bcmp, bcopy, bzero, memccpy, memchr, memcmp, memcpy, memfrob, memmem, memmove, memset ......................................................................................... 901

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htonl, htons, ntohl, ntohs ................................................................................. 901 bzero ................................................................................................................. 902 catgets ............................................................................................................... 902 catopen, catclose ............................................................................................... 903 ceil .................................................................................................................... 904 clientlib ............................................................................................................. 904 clock ................................................................................................................. 905 closedir.............................................................................................................. 905 confstr ............................................................................................................... 906 copysign ............................................................................................................ 907 cos .................................................................................................................... 907 cosh .................................................................................................................. 908 crypt ................................................................................................................. 908 ctermid ............................................................................................................. 909 asctime, ctime, gmtime, localtime, mktime ....................................................... 909 difftime ............................................................................................................. 911 div..................................................................................................................... 911 drand48, erand48, lrand48, nrand48, mrand48, jrand48, srand48, seed48, lcong48 .............................................................................................. 912 drem ................................................................................................................. 913 ecvt, fcvt ........................................................................................................... 913 erf, erfc .............................................................................................................. 914 execl, execlp, execle, exect, execv, execvp ........................................................... 914 errno ................................................................................................................. 916 exit .................................................................................................................... 917 exp, log, log10, pow .......................................................................................... 917 expm1, log1p .................................................................................................... 918 fabs ................................................................................................................... 919 fclose ................................................................................................................. 919 clearerr, feof, ferror, fileno ................................................................................. 919 fflush, fpurge ..................................................................................................... 920 ffs ...................................................................................................................... 921 fgetgrent ............................................................................................................ 921 fgetpwent .......................................................................................................... 922 floor .................................................................................................................. 923 fmod ................................................................................................................. 923 fnmatch ............................................................................................................ 924 fopen, fdopen, freopen ...................................................................................... 924 fpathconf, pathconf ........................................................................................... 925 fread, fwrite ....................................................................................................... 926 frexp.................................................................................................................. 927 fgetpos, fseek, fsetpos, ftell, rewind.................................................................... 927 ftime ................................................................................................................. 928 ftok ................................................................................................................... 929 ftw .................................................................................................................... 930

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gcvt ................................................................................................................... 930 getcwd, get_current_dir_name, getwd............................................................... 931 getdirentries ...................................................................................................... 931 getenv ............................................................................................................... 932 getgrent, setgrent, endgrent ............................................................................... 932 getgrnam, getgrgid ............................................................................................ 933 getlogin, cuserid ................................................................................................ 934 getmntent, setmntent, addmntent, endmntent, hasmntopt ............................... 935 getnetent, getnetbyaddr, getnetbyname, setnetent, endnetent ........................... 936 getopt ................................................................................................................ 937 getpass............................................................................................................... 940 getprotoent, getprotobyname, getprotobynumber, setprotoent, endprotoent .... 941 getpw ................................................................................................................ 942 getpwent, setpwent, endpwent .......................................................................... 943 getpwnam, getpwuid ......................................................................................... 944 fgetc, fgets, getc, getchar, gets, ungetc ............................................................... 944 getservent, getservbyname, getservbyport, setservent, endservent ....................... 945 getusershell, setusershell, endusershell ............................................................... 946 getutent, getutid, getutline, pututline, setutent, endutent, utmpname ............... 947 getw, putw ........................................................................................................ 948 glob, globfree .................................................................................................... 949 hosts_access, hosts_ctl ....................................................................................... 950 hcreate, hdestroy, hsearch .................................................................................. 951 hypot ................................................................................................................ 953 index, rindex ..................................................................................................... 953 inet_aton, inet_addr, inet_network, inet_ntoa, inet_makeaddr, inet_lnaof, inet_netof ....................................................................................................... 953 infnan ............................................................................................................... 954 initgroups.......................................................................................................... 955 inndcomm ........................................................................................................ 956 insque, remque .................................................................................................. 957 isalnum, isalpha, isascii, isblank, iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isspace, isupper, isxdigit ..................................................................... 957 isatty ................................................................................................................. 958 isinf, isnan, finite .............................................................................................. 959 j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn ........................................................................................... 959 killpg................................................................................................................. 960 labs ................................................................................................................... 960 ldexp ................................................................................................................. 961 ldiv.................................................................................................................... 961 lgamma ............................................................................................................. 962 libinn ................................................................................................................ 962 libpbm .............................................................................................................. 966 libpgm .............................................................................................................. 969 libpnm .............................................................................................................. 970

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libppm .............................................................................................................. 973 localeconv ......................................................................................................... 974 longjmp ............................................................................................................ 975 lfind, lsearch ...................................................................................................... 975 calloc, malloc, free, realloc ................................................................................. 976 mblen ................................................................................................................ 977 mbstowcs .......................................................................................................... 977 mbtowc ............................................................................................................. 978 memccpy .......................................................................................................... 978 memchr ............................................................................................................ 979 memcmp ........................................................................................................... 979 memcpy ............................................................................................................ 980 memfrob ........................................................................................................... 980 memmem .......................................................................................................... 981 memmove ......................................................................................................... 981 memset ............................................................................................................. 982 mkfifo ............................................................................................................... 982 mkstemp ........................................................................................................... 983 mktemp ............................................................................................................ 983 modf ................................................................................................................. 984 asctime, ctime, difftime, gmtime, localtime, mktime ......................................... 984 tzset .................................................................................................................. 986 on_exit .............................................................................................................. 988 opendir ............................................................................................................. 989 parsedate ........................................................................................................... 989 perror ................................................................................................................ 990 popen, pclose .................................................................................................... 991 printf, fprintf, sprintf, snprintf, vprintf, vfprintf, vsprintf, vsnprintf .................. 992 psignal .............................................................................................................. 996 putenv............................................................................................................... 996 putpwent .......................................................................................................... 997 fputc, fputs, putc, putchar, puts ........................................................................ 997 qio .................................................................................................................... 998 qsort ................................................................................................................ 1000 raise ................................................................................................................ 1000 rand, srand ...................................................................................................... 1001 random, srandom, initstate, setstate ................................................................ 1001 readdir ............................................................................................................ 1002 readv, writev.................................................................................................... 1003 realpath ........................................................................................................... 1004 Re_comp, re_exec ........................................................................................... 1005 regcomp, regexec, regerror, regfree .................................................................. 1005 remove ............................................................................................................ 1007 res_query, res_search, res_mkquery, res_send, res_init, dn_comp, dn_expand .................................................................................................... 1008

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rewinddir ........................................................................................................ 1011 rint .................................................................................................................. 1011 rquota ............................................................................................................. 1012 scandir, alphasort ............................................................................................ 1012 scanf, fscanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf, vfscanf ..................................................... 1013 seekdir............................................................................................................. 1015 setbuf, setbuffer, setlinebuf, setvbuf ................................................................. 1016 setenv.............................................................................................................. 1017 setjmp ............................................................................................................. 1018 setlocale........................................................................................................... 1018 siginterrupt ..................................................................................................... 1019 sigemptyset, sigfillset, sigaddset, sigdelset, sigismember ................................... 1019 sin ................................................................................................................... 1020 sinh ................................................................................................................. 1021 sleep ................................................................................................................ 1021 snprintf, vsnprintf ........................................................................................... 1022 sqrt .................................................................................................................. 1023 stdarg .............................................................................................................. 1023 stdio ................................................................................................................ 1025 stpcpy ............................................................................................................. 1027 strcasecmp, strncasecmp .................................................................................. 1028 strcat, strncat ................................................................................................... 1028 strchr, strrchr .................................................................................................. 1029 strcmp, strncmp .............................................................................................. 1029 strcoll .............................................................................................................. 1030 strcpy, strncpy ................................................................................................. 1030 strdup ............................................................................................................. 1031 strerror ............................................................................................................ 1032 strfry ............................................................................................................... 1032 strftime ........................................................................................................... 1032 strcasecmp, strcat, strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strdup, strfry, strlen, strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strncasecmp, strpbrk, strrchr, strsep, strspn, strstr, strtok, strxfrm, index, rindex ................................................... 1034 strlen ............................................................................................................... 1035 strpbrk ............................................................................................................ 1035 strptime .......................................................................................................... 1036 strsep............................................................................................................... 1037 strsignal ........................................................................................................... 1038 strspn, strcspn ................................................................................................. 1038 strstr ................................................................................................................ 1039 strtod .............................................................................................................. 1039 strtok .............................................................................................................. 1040 strtol ............................................................................................................... 1041 strtoul ............................................................................................................. 1041 strxfrm ............................................................................................................ 1042

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swab ................................................................................................................ 1043 sysconf ............................................................................................................ 1043 closelog, openlog, syslog .................................................................................. 1045 system ............................................................................................................. 1047 tan .................................................................................................................. 1047 tanh ................................................................................................................ 1048 telldir .............................................................................................................. 1048 tempnam ........................................................................................................ 1049 termios, tcgetattr, tcsetattr, tcsendbreak, tcdrain, tcflush, tcflow, cfmakeraw, cfgetospeed, cfgetispeed, cfsetispeed, cfsetospeed, tcgetpgrp, tcsetpgrp .......... 1049 tmpfile ............................................................................................................ 1053 tmpnam .......................................................................................................... 1054 toascii .............................................................................................................. 1055 toupper, tolower.............................................................................................. 1055 tsearch, tfind, tdelete, twalk ............................................................................ 1056 ttyname ........................................................................................................... 1058 tzset ................................................................................................................ 1058 none ................................................................................................................ 1060 usleep .............................................................................................................. 1061 wcstombs ........................................................................................................ 1061 wctomb ........................................................................................................... 1061

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Special Files

charsets ........................................................................................................... 1064 console ............................................................................................................ 1066 console_codes ................................................................................................. 1067 console ioctls ................................................................................................... 1074 fd .................................................................................................................... 1080 hd ................................................................................................................... 1083 ispell ............................................................................................................... 1084 lp .................................................................................................................... 1090 mem, kmem, port ........................................................................................... 1091 mouse ............................................................................................................. 1092 null, zero ......................................................................................................... 1094 ram ................................................................................................................. 1094 sd .................................................................................................................... 1095 st ..................................................................................................................... 1096 tty ................................................................................................................... 1100 ttys .................................................................................................................. 1101 vcs, vcsa .......................................................................................................... 1101

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File Formats

intro ................................................................................................................ 1104 active, active.times .......................................................................................... 1104 adduser.conf .................................................................................................... 1105 aliases .............................................................................................................. 1106

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cfingerd ........................................................................................................... 1106 cfingerd.conf ................................................................................................... 1109 cfingerd text rules............................................................................................. 1115 control.ctl ....................................................................................................... 1115 cvs ................................................................................................................... 1116 DEVINFO ..................................................................................................... 1120 environ ............................................................................................................ 1121 expire.ctl ......................................................................................................... 1121 exports ............................................................................................................ 1123 filesystems ....................................................................................................... 1125 fstab ................................................................................................................ 1126 groff_font ........................................................................................................ 1127 groff_out ......................................................................................................... 1129 group .............................................................................................................. 1131 history............................................................................................................. 1131 hosts.nntp, hosts.nntp.nolimit ........................................................................ 1132 hosts_access..................................................................................................... 1133 hosts_options .................................................................................................. 1137 inittab ............................................................................................................. 1139 inn.conf .......................................................................................................... 1141 innwatch.ctl .................................................................................................... 1142 ipc ................................................................................................................... 1144 issue ................................................................................................................ 1146 lilo.conf ........................................................................................................... 1147 MAKEDEV.cfg .............................................................................................. 1151 moderators ...................................................................................................... 1151 /etc/modules ................................................................................................... 1152 motd ............................................................................................................... 1152 mtools ............................................................................................................. 1152 newsfeeds ........................................................................................................ 1158 newslog ........................................................................................................... 1163 nfs ................................................................................................................... 1165 nnrp.access ...................................................................................................... 1167 nntpsend.ctl .................................................................................................... 1168 nologin ........................................................................................................... 1168 overview.fmt ................................................................................................... 1168 passwd ............................................................................................................ 1169 passwd.nntp .................................................................................................... 1170 pbm ................................................................................................................ 1170 pgm ................................................................................................................ 1171 pnm ................................................................................................................ 1173 ppm ................................................................................................................ 1173 /proc ............................................................................................................... 1174 protocols ......................................................................................................... 1180 rcsfile .............................................................................................................. 1181

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resolver............................................................................................................ 1183 securetty.......................................................................................................... 1184 services ............................................................................................................ 1184 shells ............................................................................................................... 1186 syslog.conf ...................................................................................................... 1186 termcap ........................................................................................................... 1188 ttytype............................................................................................................. 1197 tzfile ................................................................................................................ 1197 utmp, wtmp .................................................................................................... 1198 uuencode ........................................................................................................ 1200 XF86Config .................................................................................................... 1201

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Games

intro ................................................................................................................ 1210 banner ............................................................................................................. 1210 ddate ............................................................................................................... 1210

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Miscellaneous

intro ................................................................................................................ 1214 ascii ................................................................................................................. 1214 bootparam ...................................................................................................... 1216 groff_me ......................................................................................................... 1225 groff_mm ........................................................................................................ 1227 groff_ms.......................................................................................................... 1234 hier ................................................................................................................. 1236 hostname ........................................................................................................ 1238 iso_8859_1 ..................................................................................................... 1239 locale ............................................................................................................... 1243 mailaddr.......................................................................................................... 1244 man ................................................................................................................ 1246 signal ............................................................................................................... 1248 suffixes ............................................................................................................ 1249 tr2tex .............................................................................................................. 1252 Unicode .......................................................................................................... 1253 UT F-8 ............................................................................................................ 1255

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Administration and Privileged Commands

intro ................................................................................................................ 1258 adduser, addgroup ........................................................................................... 1258 agetty .............................................................................................................. 1259 archive ............................................................................................................ 1262 arp .................................................................................................................. 1263 badblocks ........................................................................................................ 1264 buffchan .......................................................................................................... 1264 cfdisk .............................................................................................................. 1265 chat ................................................................................................................. 1269

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chroot ............................................................................................................. 1273 clock ............................................................................................................... 1273 comsat ............................................................................................................. 1274 crond .............................................................................................................. 1275 ctlinnd ............................................................................................................ 1276 ctrlaltdel .......................................................................................................... 1279 cvsbug ............................................................................................................. 1279 cvtbatch .......................................................................................................... 1281 cytune ............................................................................................................. 1282 debugfs ........................................................................................................... 1284 dip .................................................................................................................. 1285 dmesg.............................................................................................................. 1288 dumpe2fs ........................................................................................................ 1289 e2fsck .............................................................................................................. 1289 edquota ........................................................................................................... 1291 expire .............................................................................................................. 1292 expireover ....................................................................................................... 1293 fastrm.............................................................................................................. 1294 fdformat .......................................................................................................... 1295 fdisk ................................................................................................................ 1296 filechan ........................................................................................................... 1297 fsck ................................................................................................................. 1298 fsck.minix ....................................................................................................... 1300 ftpd ................................................................................................................. 1301 ifconfig............................................................................................................ 1304 inetd ............................................................................................................... 1305 init, telinit ....................................................................................................... 1307 innd, inndstart ................................................................................................ 1309 innxmit ........................................................................................................... 1312 ipcrm .............................................................................................................. 1313 ipcs ................................................................................................................. 1314 kbdrate............................................................................................................ 1314 klogd............................................................................................................... 1315 lpc ................................................................................................................... 1317 lpd .................................................................................................................. 1318 MAKEDEV .................................................................................................... 1320 MAKEDEV .................................................................................................... 1321 mke2fs ............................................................................................................ 1324 mkfs ................................................................................................................ 1325 mkfs ................................................................................................................ 1326 mklost+found.................................................................................................. 1327 mkswap ........................................................................................................... 1327 mount, umount .............................................................................................. 1328 mountd ........................................................................................................... 1332 named-xfer ...................................................................................................... 1333

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named ............................................................................................................. 1334 named.reload .................................................................................................. 1338 named.restart .................................................................................................. 1338 ndc .................................................................................................................. 1338 netstat ............................................................................................................. 1339 makeactive, makehistory, newsrequeue............................................................ 1342 news.daily ....................................................................................................... 1344 newslog ........................................................................................................... 1346 nfsd ................................................................................................................. 1347 nnrpd .............................................................................................................. 1347 nntpsend ......................................................................................................... 1349 nslookup ......................................................................................................... 1350 overchan ......................................................................................................... 1353 pac .................................................................................................................. 1354 pcnfsd ............................................................................................................. 1355 plipconfig........................................................................................................ 1357 ping ................................................................................................................ 1358 portmap .......................................................................................................... 1358 powerd ............................................................................................................ 1359 pppd ............................................................................................................... 1360 pppstats........................................................................................................... 1369 prunehistory.................................................................................................... 1370 quotacheck ...................................................................................................... 1371 quotaon, quotaoff ........................................................................................... 1372 rarp ................................................................................................................. 1373 rdev................................................................................................................. 1373 renice .............................................................................................................. 1375 repquota.......................................................................................................... 1376 rexecd ............................................................................................................. 1376 rlogind ............................................................................................................ 1377 route ............................................................................................................... 1379 routed ............................................................................................................. 1380 rpc.rusersd ...................................................................................................... 1382 rpc.rwalld ........................................................................................................ 1383 rpcinfo ............................................................................................................ 1383 rquotad, rpc.rquotad ....................................................................................... 1384 rshd................................................................................................................. 1385 rwhod ............................................................................................................. 1386 sendmail .......................................................................................................... 1387 setfdprm .......................................................................................................... 1391 setserial ........................................................................................................... 1391 setsid ............................................................................................................... 1395 showmount ..................................................................................................... 1396 shutdown ........................................................................................................ 1396 simpleinit ........................................................................................................ 1397

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slattach ............................................................................................................ 1399 sliplogin .......................................................................................................... 1399 swapon, swapoff .............................................................................................. 1401 sync ................................................................................................................. 1401 sysklogd .......................................................................................................... 1402 syslogd ............................................................................................................ 1404 talkd................................................................................................................ 1405 telnetd............................................................................................................. 1406 tftpd................................................................................................................ 1407 timed .............................................................................................................. 1407 timedc ............................................................................................................. 1408 traceroute ........................................................................................................ 1409 tune2fs ............................................................................................................ 1412 tunelp ............................................................................................................. 1413 update_state .................................................................................................... 1414 uucico ............................................................................................................. 1415 vmstat ............................................................................................................. 1417 vipw................................................................................................................ 1418 zdump............................................................................................................. 1419 zic ................................................................................................................... 1419

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Kernel Reference Guide

add_timer, del_timer, init_timer ..................................................................... 1424 adjust_clock .................................................................................................... 1424 ctrl_alt_del ...................................................................................................... 1425 file_table ......................................................................................................... 1425 file_table_init .................................................................................................. 1427 filesystems ....................................................................................................... 1427 get_empty_filp ................................................................................................ 1428 grow_files........................................................................................................ 1428 in_group_p ..................................................................................................... 1429 insert_file_free ................................................................................................ 1429 kernel_mktime ................................................................................................ 1430 proc_sel ........................................................................................................... 1430 put_file_last .................................................................................................... 1431 remove_file_free .............................................................................................. 1431

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Introduction This section introduces and describes user commands.

AUTHORS Look at the header of the manual page for the author(s) and copyright conditions. Note that these can be different from page to page.

addftinfo addftinfo —Add information to troff font files for use with groff

SYNOPSIS addftinfo [ –paramvalue... ] res uni t wi dt h f ont

DESCRIPTION addftinfo reads a troff font file and adds some additional font-metric information that is used by the groff system. The font file with the information added is written on the standard output. The information added is guessed using some parametric information about the font and assumptions about the traditional troff names for characters. The main information added is the heights and depths of characters. The res and unitwidth arguments should be the same as the corresponding parameters in the DESC file; font is the name of the file describing the font; if font ends with I, the font will be assumed to be italic.

OPTIONS Each of the f options changes one of the parameters that is used to derive the heights and depths. Like the existing quantities in the font file, each value is in inches/res for a font whose point size is unitwidth . param must be one of the following: x-height

The height of lowercase letters without ascenders such as x

fig-height

The height of figures (digits)

asc-height

The height of characters with ascenders, such as b, d, or l

body-height

The height of characters such as parentheses

cap-height

The height of uppercase letters such as A

comma-depth

The depth of a comma

desc-depth

The depth of characters with descenders, such as p, q, or y

body-depth

The depth of characters such as parentheses

addftinfo makes no attempt to use the specified parameters to guess the unspecified parameters. If a parameter is not specified, the default will be used. The defaults are chosen to have the reasonable values for a Times font.

SEE ALSO font(5) groff_font (5), groff (1), groff_char(7)

Groff Version 1.09, 6 August 1992

afmtodit afmtodit— Create font files for use with groff –Tps

SYNOPSIS afmtodit [ –ns ][–ddesc_f i l e ][–eenc_f i l e ][–in ][–an ] af m_f i l e map_f i l e f ont

afmtodit

DESCRIPTION afmtodit creates a font file for use with groff and grops . afmtodit is written in Perl; you must have Perl version 3 installed in

order to run afmtodit . afm_file is the AFM (Adobe Font Metric) file for the font. map_file is a file that says which groff character names map onto each PostScript character name; this file should contain a sequence of lines of the form: ps_char gr of f _char

where ps_char is the PostScript name of the character and groff_char is the groff name of the character (as used in the groff font file.) The same ps_char can occur multiple times in the file; each groff_char must occur, at most, once. font is the groff name of the font. If a PostScript character is in the encoding to be used for the font but is not mentioned in map_file , then afmtodit will put it in the groff font file as an unnamed character, which can be accessed by the \N escape sequence in troff. The groff_font file will be output to a file called font. If there is a downloadable font file for the font, it may be listed in the file /usr/lib/groff/font/devps/download; see grops (1). If the –i option is used, afmtodit will automatically generate an italic correction, a left italic correction, and a subscript correction for each character (the significance of these parameters is explained in groff_font (5)); these parameters may be specified for individual characters by adding to the afm_file lines of the form: italicCorrectionps charn leftItalicCorrectionps charn subscriptCorrectionps charn

where ps_char is the PostScript name of the character, and n is the desired value of the corresponding parameter in thousandths of an em. These parameters are normally needed only for italic (or oblique) fonts.

OPTIONS –n

Don’t output a ligatures command for this font. Use this with constant-width fonts.

–s

The font is special. The effect of this option is to add the special command to the font file.

–ddesc_f i l e

The device description file is desc_f i l e rather than the default DESC.

–eenc_f i l e

The PostScript font should be reencoded to use the encoding described in enc_f i l e . The format of enc_f i l e is described in grops (1).

–an

Use n as the slant parameter in the font file; this is used by groff in the positioning of accents. By default, afmtodit uses the negative of the ItalicAngle specified in the af m_f i l e ; with true italic fonts, it is sometimes desirable to use a slant that is less than this. If you find that characters from an italic font have accents placed too far to the right over them, then use the –a option to give the font a smaller slant.

–in

Generate an italic correction for each character so that the character’s width plus the character’s italic correction is equal to n thousandths of an em plus the amount by which the right edge of the character’s bounding is to the right of the character’s origin. If this would result in a negative italic correction, use a zero italic correction instead. Also generate a subscript correction equal to the product of the tangent of the slant of the font and four-fifths of the x-height of the font. If this would result in a subscript correction greater than the italic correction, use a subscript correction equal to the italic correction instead. Also generate a left italic correction for each character equal to n thousandths of an em plus the amount by which the left edge of the character’s bounding box is to the left of the character’s origin. The left italic correction may be negative. This option is normally needed only with italic (or oblique) fonts. The font files distributed with groff were created using an option of –i50 for italic fonts.

FILES /usr/lib/groff/font/devps/DESC

Device description file

/usr/lib/groff/font/devps/F

Font description file for font F

/usr/lib/groff/font/devps/download

List of downloadable fonts

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/usr/lib/groff/font/devps/text.enc

Encoding used for text fonts

/usr/lib/groff/font/devps/generate/textmap

Standard mapping

SEE ALSO groff(1), grops (1), groff_font (5), perl(1)

Groff Version 1.09, 14 February 1994

ansi2knr ansi2knr —Convert ANSI C to Kernighan & Ritchie C

SYNOPSIS ansi2knr i nput _f i l e out put _f i l e

DESCRIPTION If no out put _f i l e is supplied, output goes to stdout . There are no error messages. ansi2knr recognizes functions by seeing a nonkeyword identifier at the left margin, followed by a left parenthesis, with a right

parenthesis as the last character on the line. It will recognize a multiline header if the last character on each line but the last is a left parenthesis or comma. T hese algorithms ignore whitespace and comments, except that the function name must be the first thing on the line. The following constructs will confuse it: ■ ■

Any other construct that starts at the left margin and follows the above syntax (such as a macro or function call) Macros that tinker with the syntax of the function header

31 December 1990

anytopnm anytopnm —Attempt to convert an unknown type of image file to a portable anymap

SYNOPSIS anytopnm f i l e

DESCRIPTION anytopnm uses the file program, possibly augmented by the magic numbers file included with PBMPLUS, to try to figure out what type of image file it is. If that fails (very few image formats have magic numbers), looks at the filename extension. If that fails, punt.

The type of the output file depends on the input file.

SEE ALSO pnmfile (1), pnm (5), file (1)

BUGS It’s a script. Scripts are not portable to non-UNIX environments.

AUTHOR Copyright  1991 by Jef Poskanzer

27 July 1990

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appres appres—List X application resource database

SYNOPSIS appres [[cl ass [i nst ance]] [–1] [t ool ki t opt i ons]

DESCRIPTION The appres program prints the resources seen by an application (or subhierarchy of an application) with the specified class and instance names. It can be used to determine which resources a particular program will load. For example, % appres XTerm

will list the resources that any xterm program will load. If no application class is specified, the class -AppResTest- is used. To match a particular instance name, specify an instance name explicitly after the class name, or use the normal Xt toolkit option. For example, % appres XTerm myxterm

or % appres XTerm –name myxterm

To list resources that match a subhierarchy of an application, specify hierarchical class and instance names. The number of class and instance components must be equal, and the instance name should not be specified with a toolkit option. For example, % appres Xman.TopLevelShell.Form xman.topBox.form

will list the resources of widgets of xman topBox hierarchy. To list just the resources matching a specific level in the hierarchy, use the –1 option. For example, % appres XTerm.VT100 xterm.vt100 –1

will list the resources matching the xterm vt100 widget.

SEE ALSO X(1), xrdb(1), listres(1)

AUTHOR Jim Fulton (MIT X Consortium)

X Version 11 Release 6

ar ar—Create, modify, and extract from archives

SYNOPSIS ar [ - ] dmpqrtx[abcilosuvV] [ member name ] ar chi ve f i l es ...

DESCRIPTION The GNU ar program creates, modifies, and extracts from archives. An archive is a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes it possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of the archive). The original files’ contents, mode (permissions), timestamp, owner, and group are preserved in the archive, and may be reconstituted on extraction.

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GNU ar can maintain archives whose members have names of any length; however, depending on how ar is configured on your system, a limit on member-name length may be imposed (for compatibility with archive formats maintained with other tools). If it exists, the limit is often 15 characters (typical of formats related to a.out) or 16 characters (typical of formats related to coff). ar is considered a binary utility because archives of this sort are most often used as libraries holding commonly needed subroutines. ar will create an index to the symbols defined in relocatable object modules in the archive when you specify the modifier s. Once created, this index is updated in the archive whenever ar makes a change to its contents (save for the q update operation). An archive with such an index speeds up linking to the library, and allows routines in the library to call each other without regard to their placement in the archive.

You may use nm –s or nm —print–armap to list this index table. If an archive lacks the table, another form of ar called ranlib can be used to add just the table. ar insists on at least two arguments to execute: one keyletter specifying the operation (optionally accompanied by other

keyletters specifying modifiers ), and the archive name to act on. Most operations can also accept further files arguments, specifying particular files to operate on.

OPTIONS GNU ar allows you to mix the operation code p and modifier flags mod in any order, within the first command-line argument. If you wish, you may begin the first command-line argument with a dash. The p keyletter specifies what operation to execute; it may be any of the following, but you must specify only one of them: d

Delete modules from the archive. Specify the names of modules to be deleted as files ; the archive is untouched if you specify no files to delete. If you specify the v modifier, ar will list each module as it is deleted.

m

Use this operation to move members in an archive. The ordering of members in an archive can make a difference in how programs are linked using the library if a symbol is defined in more than one member. If no modifiers are used with m, any members you name in the files arguments are moved to the end of the archive; you can use the a, b, or i modifiers to move them to a specified place instead.

p

Print the specified members of the archive to the standard output file. If the v modifier is specified, show the membername before copying its contents to standard output. If you specify no files, all the files in the archive are printed.

q

Quick append; add files to the end of archive without checking for replacement. The modifiers a, b, and i do not affect this operation; new members are always placed at the end of the archive. The modifier v makes ar list each file as it is appended. Since the point of this operation is speed, the archive’s symbol table index is not updated, even if it already existed; you can use ar s or ranlib explicitly to update the symbol table index.

r

Insert files into archive (with replacement). This operation differs from q in that any previously existing members are deleted if their names match those being added. If one of the files named in files doesn’t exist, ar displays an error message and leaves undisturbed any existing members of the archive matching that name. By default, new members are added at the end of the file, but you may use one of the modifiers a, b, or i to request placement relative to some existing member. The modifier v used with this operation elicits a line of output for each file inserted, along with one of the letters a or r to indicate whether the file was appended (no old member deleted) or replaced.

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Display a table listing the contents of archive, or those of the files listed in files that are present in the archive. Normally, only the membername is shown; if you also want to see the modes (permissions), timestamp, owner, group, and size, you can request that by also specifying the v modifier. If you do not specify any files, all files in the archive are listed. If there is more than one file with the same name (say, fie ) in an archive (say, b.a), ar t b.a fie will list only the first instance; to see them all, you must ask for a complete listing—in our example, ar t b.a.

x

Extract members (named files) from the archive. You can use the v modifier with this operation to request that ar list each name as it extracts it. If you do not specify any files, all files in the archive are extracted.

A number of modifiers (mod) may immediately follow the p keyletter, to specify variations on an operation’s behavior, as follows: a

Add new files after an existing member of the archive. If you use the modifier a, the name of an existing archive member must be present as the membername argument, before the archive specification.

b

Add new files before an existing member of the archive. If you use the modifier b, the name of an existing archive member must be present as the membername argument, before the archive specification (same as i).

c

Create the archive. The specified archive is always created if it didn’t exist when you request an update. But a warning is issued unless you specify in advance that you expect to create it by using this modifier.

i

Insert new files before an existing member of the archive. If you use the modifier i, the name of an existing archive member must be present as the membername argument, before the archive specification. (same as b).

l

This modifier is accepted but not used.

o

Preserve the original dates of members when extracting them. If you do not specify this modifier, files extracted from the archive will be stamped with the time of extraction.

s

Write an object-file index into the archive, or update an existing one, even if no other change is made to the archive. You may use this modifier flag either with any operation, or alone. Running ar s on an archive is equivalent to running ranlib on it.

u

Normally, ar r... inserts all files listed into the archive. If you would like to insert only those of the files you list that are newer than existing members of the same names, use this modifier. The u modifier is allowed only for the operation r (replace). In particular, the combination qu is not allowed, since checking the timestamps would lose any speed advantage from the operation q.

v

This modifier requests the verbose version of an operation. Many operations display additional information, such as filenames processed, when the modifier v is appended.

V

This modifier shows the version number of ar.

SEE ALSO binutils entry in info; The GNU Binary Utilities, Roland H. Pesch (October 1991); nm(1), anlib(1)

COPYING Copyright  1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be included in translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the original English.

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arch arch—Print architecture

SYNOPSIS arch

DESCRIPTION arch displays machine architecture type.

SEE ALSO uname(1), uname (2)

Debian GNU/Linux, 15 January 1994

GNU as GNU as—The portable GNU assembler

SYNOPSIS as [ –a | –al | -as ][–D ][–f ][–I pat h ][–K ][–L ][–o obj f i l e ][–R ][–v ][–w ][––\|\ f i l es ...]

i960-only options: [ –ACA| –ACA A | –ACB | –ACC| –AKA| –AKB | –AKC| –AMC][–b ][–no-relax ]

m680x0-only options: [ –l ][–mc68000| –mc68010| –mc68020]

DESCRIPTION GNU as is really a family of assemblers. If you use (or have used) the GNU assembler on one architecture, you should find a fairly similar environment when you use it on another architecture. Each version has much in common with the others, including object file formats, most assembler directives (often called pseudo-ops) and assembler syntax. For information on the syntax and pseudo-ops used by GNU as, see as entry in info (or the manual Using as: The GNU Assembler). as is primarily intended to assemble the output of the GNU C compiler gcc for use by the linker ld. Nevertheless, we’ve tried to make as assemble correctly everything that the native assembler would. This doesn’t mean as always uses the same syntax as another assembler for the same architecture; for example, we know of several incompatible versions of 680x0 assembly language syntax.

Each time you run as, it assembles exactly one source program. The source program is made up of one or more files. (The standard input is also a file.) If as is given no filenames, it attempts to read one input file from the as standard input, which is normally your terminal. You may have to type Ctrl-D to tell as there is no more program to assemble. Use –– if you need to explicitly name the standard input file in your command line. as may write warnings and error messages to the standard error file (usually your terminal). T his should not happen when as

is run automatically by a compiler. Warnings report an assumption made so that as could keep assembling a flawed program; errors report a grave problem that stops the assembly.

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OPTIONS –a|–al |–as

Turn on assembly listings; –al , listing only, –as, symbols only, -a, everything.

–D

This option is accepted only for script compatibility with calls to other assemblers; it has no effect on as.

–f

“Fast”–skip preprocessing (assume source is compiler output).

–I\pat h

Add path to the search list for .include directives.

–K

Issue warnings when difference tables altered for long displacements.

–L

Keep (in symbol table) local symbols, starting with L.

–o\obj f i l e

Name the object-file output from as .

–R

Fold data section into text section.

–v

Announce as version.

–W

Suppress warning messages.

––\|\f i l es ...

Source files to assemble, or standard input (––).

–Avar

(When configured for Intel 960.) Specify which variant of the 960 architecture is the target.

–b

(When configured for Intel 960.) Add code to collect statistics about branches taken.

–no-relax

(When configured for Intel 960.) Do not alter compare-and-branch instructions for long displacements; error if necessary.

–l

(When configured for Motorola 68000.) Shorten references to undefined symbols to one word instead of two.

–mc68000|–mc68010|–mc68020

(When configured for Motorola 68000.) Specify which processor in the 68000 family is the target (default 68020).

Options may be in any order, and may be before, after, or between filenames. T he order of filenames is significant. The double hyphens command (—) by itself names the standard input file explicitly, as one of the files for as to assemble. Except for ––, any command line argument that begins with a hyphen (–) is an option. Each option changes the behavior of as. No option changes the way another option works. An option is a hyphen followed by one or more letters; the case of the

letter is important. All options are optional. The –o option expects exactly one filename to follow. T he filename may either immediately follow the option’s letter (compatible with older assemblers) or it may be the next command argument (GNU standard). These two command lines are equivalent: as –o my–object–file.o mumble.s as –omy–object–file.o mumble.s

SEE ALSO as entry in info ; Using as: The GNU Assembler; gcc(1), ld(1).

COPYING Copyright  1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be included in translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the original English.

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asciitopgm asciitopgm —Convert ASCII graphics into a portable graymap

SYNOPSIS asciitopgm [-d divisor] hei ght wi dt h [asci i f i l e]

DESCRIPTION Reads ASCII data as input. Produces a portable graymap with pixel values that are an approximation of the brightness of the ASCII characters, assuming black-on-white printing. In other words, a capital M is very dark, a period is very light, and a space is white. Input lines that are fewer than wi dt h characters are automatically padded with spaces. The divisor argument is a floating-point number by which the output pixels are divided; the default value is 1.0. This can be used to adjust the brightness of the graymap; for example, if the image is too dim, reduce the divisor. In keeping with (I believe) FORT RAN line-printer conventions, input lines beginning with a + (plus) character are assumed to overstrike the previous line, allowing a larger range of gray values. This tool contradicts the message in the pbmtoascii manual: “Note that there is no asciitopbm tool—this transformation is one-way.”

BUGS The table of ASCII-to-gray values is subject to interpretation, and, of course, depends on the typeface intended for the input.

SEE ALSO pbmtoascii (1), pgm(5)

AUTHOR Wilson H. Bent, Jr. ([email protected] )

26 December 1994

atktopbm atktopbm —Convert Andrew Toolkit raster object to portable bitmap

SYNOPSIS atktopbm [at kf i l e]

DESCRIPTION atktopbm reads an Andrew Toolkit raster object as input and produces a portable bitmap as output.

SEE ALSO pbmtoatk (1), pbm (5)

AUTHOR Copyright  1991 by Bill Janssen

26 September 1991

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bash bash—GNU Bourne–again shell

SYNOPSIS bash [opt i ons ] [f i l e]

DESCRIPTION bash is an sh–compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh). bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE

Working Group 10032).

OPTIONS In addition to the single–character shell options documented in the description of the set built-in command, bash interprets the following flags when it is invoked: –c st r i ng

If the –c flag is present, then commands are read from st r i ng . If there are arguments after the string, they are assigned to the positional parameters, starting with $0.

–i

If the –i flag is present, the shell is interactive.

–s

If the –s flag is present, or if no arguments remain after option processing, then commands are read from the standard input. This option allows the positional parameters to be set when invoking an interactive shell.

–

A single – signals the end of options and disables further option processing. Any arguments after the – are treated as filenames and arguments. An argument of — is equivalent to an argument of –.

bash also interprets a number of multicharacter options. T o be recognized, these options must appear on the command line before the single–character options. –norc

Do not read and execute the personal initialization file ˜/.bashrc if the shell is interactive. This option is on by default if the shell is invoked as sh.

–noprofile

Do not read either the system–wide startup file /etc/profile or any of the personal initialization files ˜/.bash_profile, ˜/.bash_login , or ˜/.profile. By default, bash normally reads these files when it is invoked as a login shell. (See the “Invocation” section, later in this manual page.)

–rcfile f i l e

Execute commands from file instead of the standard personal initialization file ˜/.bashrc , if the shell is interactive. (See “Invocation.”)

–version

Show the version number of this instance of bash when starting.

–quiet

Do not be verbose when starting up (do not show the shell version or any other information). This is the default.

–login

Make bash act as if it had been invoked as a login shell.

–nobraceexpansion

Do not perform curly brace expansion. (See “Brace Expansion,” later in this manual page.)

–nolineediting

Do not use the GNU readline library to read command lines if interactive.

–posix

Change the behavior of bash where the default operation differs from the POSIX 1003.2 standard to match the standard.

ARGUMENTS If arguments remain after option processing, and neither the –c nor the –s option has been supplied, the first argument is assumed to be the name of a file containing shell commands. If bash is invoked in this fashion, is set to the name of the file, and the positional parameters are set to the remaining arguments. bash reads and executes commands from this file, then exits. bash ’s exit status is the exit status of the last command executed in the script.

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DEFINITIONS blank

A space or tab.

word

A sequence of characters considered as a single unit by the shell. Also known as a token.

name

A word consisting only of alphanumeric characters and underscores and beginning with an alphabetic character or an underscore. Also referred to as an identifier.

meta character

A character that, when unquoted, separates words. One of the following:

control operator

A token that performs a control function. It is one of the following symbols:

|, & , ;, (, ), , space, tab ||, & , & & , ;, ;;, (, ), |,

RESERVED WORDS Reserved words are words that have a special meaning to the shell. The following words are recognized as reserved when unquoted and either the first word of a simple command (see “Shell Grammar,” next) or the third word of a case or for command: ! case

do done elif else esac fi for function if in select then until while { }

SHELL GRAMMAR SIMPLE COMMANDS A simple command is a sequence of optional variable assignments followed by words and redirections separated by blank and terminated by a control operator. The first word specifies the command to be executed. The remaining words are passed as arguments to the invoked command. The return value of a simple command is its exit status, or 128+n if the command is terminated by signal n.

PIPELINES A pipeline is a sequence of one or more commands separated by the character |. The format for a pipeline is [!]command [ | command2 ... ]

The standard output of command is connected to the standard input of command2 . This connection is performed before any redirections specified by the command. (See the “Redirection” section, later in this manual page.) If the reserved word ! precedes a pipeline, the exit status of that pipeline is the logical NOT of the exit status of the last command. Otherwise, the status of the pipeline is the exit status of the last command. The shell waits for all commands in the pipeline to terminate before returning a value. Each command in a pipeline is executed as a separate process (that is, in a subshell).

LISTS A list is a sequence of one or more pipelines separated by one of these operators: ;, &, &&, or || , and terminated by one of these: ;, &, or . Of these list operators, && and || have equal precedence, followed by ; and &, which have equal precedence. If a command is terminated by the control operator &, the shell executes the command in the background in a subshell. The shell does not wait for the command to finish, and the return status is 0. Commands separated by a ; are executed sequentially; the shell waits for each command to terminate in turn. The return status is the exit status of the last command executed. The control operators && and || denote AND lists and OR lists, respectively. An AND list has the form: command && command2 command2 is executed if, and only if, command returns an exit status of Zero.

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An OR list has the form command command2 command2 is executed if, and only if, command returns a non–zero exit status. T he return status of AND and OR lists is the exit

status of the last command executed in the list.

COMPOUND COMMANDS A compound command is one of the following: (list) list is executed in a subshell. Variable assignments and built-in commands that affect the shell’s environment do not remain

in effect after the command completes. The return status is the exit status of list . { l i st ; } l i st is simply executed in the current shell environment. This is known as a group command. The return status is the exit

status of l i st . for name [ in wor d;] do l i st ; done

The list of words following in is expanded, generating a list of items. T he variable name is set to each element of this list in turn, and l i st is executed each time. If the in word is omitted, the for command executes l i st once for each positional parameter that is set. (See “Parameters,” later in this manual page.) select name [ in wor d;] do l i st ; done

The list of words following in is expanded, generating a list of items. T he set of expanded words is printed on the standard error, each preceded by a number. If the in word is omitted, the positional parameters are printed. (See “Parameters.”) T he PS3 prompt is then displayed and a line read from the standard input. If the line consists of the number corresponding to one of the displayed words, then the value of name is set to that word. If the line is empty, the words and prompt are displayed again. If EOF is read, the command completes. Any other value read causes name to be set to null. T he line read is saved in the variable REPLY . The list is executed after each selection until a break or return command is executed. The exit status of select is the exit status of the last command executed in list, or zero if no commands were executed. case wor d in [ pat t er n [ | pat t er n ]

A case command first expands wor d , and tries to match it against each pat t er n in turn, using the same matching rules as for pathname expansion. (See “Pathname Expansion,” later in this manual page.) When a match is found, the corresponding list is executed. After the first match, no subsequent matches are attempted. T he exit status is zero if no patterns are matches. Otherwise, it is the exit status of the last command executed in l i st . if l i st then l i st [ elif l i st then l i st ] ... [ else l i st ] fi

The if list is executed. If its exit status is zero, the then list is executed. Otherwise, each elif list is executed in turn, and if its exit status is zero , the corresponding then list is executed and the command completes. Otherwise, the else list is executed, if present. The exit status is the exit status of the last command executed, or zero if no condition tested True. while l i st do l i st done until l i st do l i st done

The while command continuously executes the do list as long as the last command in l i st returns an exit status of zero. T he until command is identical to the while command, except that the test is negated; the do list is executed as long as the last command in l i st returns a non–zero exit status. The exit status of the while and until commands is the exit status of the last do l i st command executed, or zero if none was executed. [ function ] name () { l i st ; }

This defines a function named name. The body of the function is the list of commands between { and }. This list is executed whenever name is specified as the name of a simple command. The exit status of a function is the exit status of the last command executed in the body. (See “Functions,” later in this manual page.)

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COMMENTS In a noninteractive shell, or an interactive shell in which the -o interactive–comments option to the set builtin is enabled, a word beginning with # causes that word and all remaining characters on that line to be ignored. An interactive shell without the -o interactive–comments option enabled does not allow comments.

QUOTING Quoting is used to remove the special meaning of certain characters or words to the shell. Quoting can be used to disable special treatment for special characters, to prevent reserved words from being recognized as such, and to prevent parameter expansion. Each of the meta characters listed earlier under “Definitions” has special meaning to the shell and must be quoted if it is to represent itself. There are three quoting mechanisms: the escape character, single quotes, and double quotes. A nonquoted backslash (\) is the escape character. It preserves the literal value of the next character that follows, with the exception of .If a \ pair appears, and the backslash is not quoted, the \ is treated as a line continuation; that is, it is effectively ignored. Enclosing characters in single quotes preserves the literal value of each character within the quotes. A single quote may not occur between single quotes, even when preceded by a backslash. Enclosing characters in double quotes preserves the literal value of all characters within the quotes, with the exception of $, ‘, and \. The characters $ and ‘ retain their special meaning within double quotes. The backslash retains its special meaning only when followed by one of the following characters: $, ‘, “, \, or . A double quote may be quoted within double quotes by preceding it with a backslash. The special parameters * and @ have special meaning when in double quotes. (See “Parameters,” next.)

PARAMETERS A parameter is an entity that stores values, somewhat like a variable in a conventional programming language. It can be a name, a number, or one of the special characters listed under “Special Parameters,” following. For the shell’s purposes, a variable is a parameter denoted by a name. A parameter is set if it has been assigned a value. The null string is a valid value. Once a variable is set, it may be unset only by using the unset built-in command. (See “Shell Built-in Commands,” later in this manual page.) A variable may be assigned to by a statement of the form: name=[val ue]

If val ue is not given, the variable is assigned the null string. All values undergo tilde expansion, parameter and variable expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, and quote removal. If the variable has its –i attribute set (see declare in “Shell Built-in Commands”) then val ue is subject to arithmetic expansion even if the $[...] syntax does not appear. Word splitting is not performed, with the exception of “$@”, as explained under “Special Parameters.” Pathname expansion is not performed.

POSITIONAL PARAMETERS A positional parameter is a parameter denoted by one or more digits, other than the single digit 0. Positional parameters are assigned from the shell’s arguments when it is invoked, and may be reassigned using the set built-in command. Positional parameters may not be assigned to with assignment statements. The positional parameters are temporarily replaced when a shell function is executed. (See “Functions,” later in this manual page.) When a positional parameter consisting of more than a single digit is expanded, it must be enclosed in braces. (See “Expansion,” later in this manual page.)

SPECIAL PARAMETERS The shell treats several parameters specially. These parameters may only be referenced; assignment to them is not allowed.

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*

Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one. When the expansion occurs within double quotes, it expands to a single word with the value of each parameter separated by the first character of the IFS special variable. That is, “$*” is equivalent to “$1c$2c...” , where c is the first character of the value of the IFS variable. If IFS is null or unset, the parameters are separated by spaces.

@

Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one. When the expansion occurs within double quotes, each parameter expands as a separate word. That is, “$@” is equivalent to “$1””$2" ... . When there are no positional parameters, “$@” and $@ expand to nothing (in other words, they are removed).

#

Expands to the number of positional parameters in decimal.

?

Expands to the status of the most recently executed foreground pipeline.

–

Expands to the current option flags as specified upon invocation, by the set built-in command, or those set by the shell itself (such as the –i flag).

$

Expands to the process ID of the shell. In a () subshell, it expands to the process ID of the current shell, not the subshell.

!

Expands to the process ID of the most recently executed background (asynchronous) command.

0

Expands to the name of the shell or shell script. This is set at shell initialization. If bash is invoked with a file of commands, is set to the name of that file. If bash is started with the –c option, then is set to the first argument after the string to be executed, if one is present. Otherwise, it is set to the pathname used to invoke bash , as given by argument zero.

_

Expands to the last argument to the previous command, after expansion. Also set to the full pathname of each command executed and placed in the environment exported to that command.

SHELL VARIABLES The following variables are set by the shell: PPID

The process ID of the shell’s parent.

PWD

The current working directory as set by the cd command.

OLDPWD

The previous working directory as set by the cd command.

REPLY

Set to the line of input read by the read built-in command when no arguments are supplied.

UID

Expands to the user ID of the current user, initialized at shell startup.

EUID

Expands to the effective user ID of the current user, initialized at shell startup.

BASH

Expands to the full pathname used to invoke this instance of bash.

BASH_VERSION

Expands to the version number of this instance of bash.

SHLVL

Incremented by one each time an instance of bash is started.

RANDOM

Each time this parameter is referenced, a random integer is generated. The sequence of random numbers may be initialized by assigning a value to RANDOM . If RANDOM is unset, it loses its special properties, even if it is subsequently reset.

SECONDS

Each time this parameter is referenced, the number of seconds since shell invocation is returned. If a value is assigned to SECONDS , the value returned upon subsequent references is the number of seconds since the assignment plus the value assigned. If SECONDS is unset, it loses its special properties, even if it is subsequently reset.

LINENO

Each time this parameter is referenced, the shell substitutes a decimal number representing the current sequential line number (starting with 1) within a script or function. When not in a script or function, the value substituted is not guaranteed to be meaningful. When in a function, the value is not the number of the source line that the command appears on (that information has been lost by the time the function is executed), but is an approximation of the number of simple commands executed in the current function. If LINENO is unset, it loses its special properties, even if it is subsequently reset.

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HISTCMD

The history number, or index in the history list, of the current command. If HISTCMD is unset, it loses its special properties, even if it is subsequently reset.

OPTARG

The value of the last option argument processed by the getopts built-in command. (See “Shell Built-in Commands,” later in this manual page).

OPTIND

The index of the next argument to be processed by the getopts built-in command. (See “Shell Built-in Commands.”)

HOSTTYPE

Automatically set to a string that uniquely describes the type of machine on which bash is executing. The default is system-dependent.

OSTYPE

Automatically set to a string that describes the operating system on which bash is executing. T he default is system-dependent.

The following variables are used by the shell. In some cases, bash assigns a default value to a variable; these cases are noted in the following list: IFS

The internal field separator that is used for word splitting after expansion and to split lines into words with the read built-in command. The default value is .

PATH

The search path for commands. It is a colon-separated list of directories in which the shell looks for commands. (See “Command Execution,” later in this manual page). The default path is system–dependent, and is set by the administrator who installs bash. A common value is /usr/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:.

HOME

The home directory of the current user; the default argument for the cd built-in command.

CDPATH

The search path for the cd command. T his is a colon-separated list of directories in which the shell looks for destination directories specified by the cd command. A sample value is .:˜:/usr.

ENV

If this parameter is set when bash is executing a shell script, its value is interpreted as a filename containing commands to initialize the shell, as in .bashrc . T he value of ENV is subjected to parameter expansion, command substitution, and arithmetic expansion before being interpreted as a pathname. PATH is not used to search for the resultant pathname.

MAIL

If this parameter is set to a filename and the MAILPATH variable is not set, bash informs the user of the arrival of mail in the specified file.

MAILCHECK

Specifies how often (in seconds) bash checks for mail. The default is 60 seconds. When it is time to check for mail, the shell does so before prompting. If this variable is unset, the shell disables mail checking.

MAILPATH

A colon-separated list of pathnames to be checked for mail. The message to be printed may be specified by separating the pathname from the message with a question mark (?). $_ stands for the name of the current mailfile. Example: MAILPATH\ =’/usr/spool/mail/bfox?”You have mail”:˜/shell-mail?”$_has mail!”’ bash supplies a default value for this variable, but the location of the user mail files

that it uses is system-dependent (for example, /usr/spool/mail/$USER). MAIL_WARNING

If set, and a file that bash is checking for mail has been accessed since the last time it was checked, the message “The mail in mail-file has been read” is printed.

PS1

The value of this parameter is expanded (see “Prompting,” later in this manual page) and used as the primary prompt string. The default value is bash\$ .

PS2

The value of this parameter is expanded and used as the secondary prompt string. The default is > .

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PS3

The value of this parameter is used as the prompt for the select command. (See “Shell Grammar,” earlier in this manual page.)

PS4

The value of this parameter is expanded and the value is printed before each command bash displays during an execution trace. T he first character of PS4 is replicated multiple times, as necessary, to indicate multiple levels of indirection. The default is +.

HISTSIZE

The number of commands to remember in the command history, (See “History,” later in this manual page.) The default value is 500 .

HISTFILE

The name of the file in which command history is saved. (See “History.”) The default value is ˜/.bash_history . If unset, the command history is not saved when an interactive shell exits.

HISTFILESIZE

The maximum number of lines contained in the history file. When this variable is assigned a value, the history file is truncated, if necessary, to contain no more than that number of lines. The default value is 500.

OPTERR

If set to the value 1, bash displays error messages generated by the getopts built-in command. (See “Shell Built-in Commands.”). OPTERR is initialized to 1 each time the shell is invoked or a shell script is executed.

PROMPT_COMMAND

If set, the value is executed as a command prior to issuing each primary prompt.

IGNOREEOF

Controls the action of the shell on receipt of an EOF character as the sole input. If set, the value is the number of consecutive EOF characters typed as the first characters on an input line before bash exits. If the variable exists but does not have a numeric value, or has no value, the default value is 10. If it does not exist, EOF signifies the end of input to the shell. This is only in effect for interactive shells.

TMOUT

If set to a value greater than zero, the value is interpreted as the number of seconds to wait for input after issuing the primary prompt. bash terminates after waiting for that number of seconds if input does not arrive.

FCEDIT

The default editor for the fc built-in command.

FIGNORE

A colon-separated list of suffixes to ignore when performing filename completion. (See “Readline,” later in this manual page.) A filename whose suffix matches one of the entries in FIGNORE is excluded from the list of matched filenames. A sample value is .o:˜ .

INPUTRC

The filename for the readline startup file, overriding the default of ˜/.inputrc . (See “Readline.”)

notify

If set, bash reports terminated background jobs immediately, rather than waiting until before printing the next primary prompt. (See also the –b option to the set built-in command.)

history_control HISTCONTROL

If set to a value of ignorespace , lines that begin with a space character are not entered on the history list. If set to a value of ignoredups , lines matching the last history line are not entered. A value of ignoreboth combines the two options. If unset, or if set to any other value than the preceding, all lines read by the parser are saved on the history list.

command_oriented_history

If set, bash attempts to save all lines of a multiple–line command in the same history entry. T his allows easy reediting of multiline commands.

glob_dot_filenames

If set, bash includes filenames beginning with a period (.) in the results of pathname expansion.

allow-null_glob_expansion

If set, bash allows pathname patterns which match no files (see “Pathname Expansion”) to expand to a null string, rather than themselves.

histchars

The two or three characters that control history expansion and tokenization. (See “History Expansion,” later in this manual page.) The first character is the history expansion character; that is, the character that signals the start of a history expansion,

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If set, the shell does not follow symbolic links when executing commands that change the current working directory. It uses the physical directory structure instead. By default, bash follows the logical chain of directories when performing commands that change the current directory, such as cd. See also the description of the –P option to the set builtin (“Shell Built-in Commands”).

hostname_completion_file HOSTFILE

Contains the name of a file in the same format as /etc/hosts that should be read when the shell needs to complete a hostname. T he file may be changed interactively; the next time hostname completion is attempted bash adds the contents of the new file to the already existing database.

noclobber

If set, bash does not overwrite an existing file with the > , >&, and redirection operators. This variable may be overridden when creating output files by using the redirection operator >| instead of >. (See also the –C option to the set built-in command.)

auto_resume

This variable controls how the shell interacts with the user and job control. If this variable is set, single word simple commands without redirections are treated as candidates for resumption of an existing stopped job. There is no ambiguity allowed; if there is more than one job beginning with the string typed, the job most recently accessed is selected. The name of a stopped job, in this context, is the command line used to start it. If set to the value exact , the string supplied must match the name of a stopped job exactly; if set to substring, the string supplied needs to match a substring of the name of a stopped job. The substring value provides functionality analogous to the %? job ID. (See “Job Control,” later in this manual page.) If set to any other value, the supplied string must be a prefix of a stopped job’s name; this provides functionality analogous to the % job id.

no_exit_on_failed_exec

If this variable exists, a noninteractive shell will not exit if it cannot execute the file specified in the exec built-in command. An interactive shell does not exit if exec fails.

cdable_vars

If this is set, an argument to the cd built-in command that is not a directory is assumed to be the name of a variable whose value is the directory to change to.

EXPANSION Expansion is performed on the command line after it has been split into words. There are seven kinds of expansion performed: brace expansion, tilde expansion, parameter and variable expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, word splitting, and pathname expansion. The order of expansions is as follows: brace expansion, tilde expansion, parameter, variable, command, and arithmetic substitution (done in a left–to–right fashion), word splitting, and pathname expansion. On systems that can support it, there is an additional expansion available: process substitution. Only brace expansion, word splitting, and pathname expansion can change the number of words of the expansion; other expansions expand a single word to a single word. T he single exception to this is the expansion of “$@” , as explained earlier. (See “Parameters.”)

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BRACE EXPANSION Brace expansion is a mechanism by which arbitrary strings may be generated. This mechanism is similar to pathname expansion, but the filenames generated need not exist. Patterns to be brace expanded take the form of an optional preamble, followed by a series of comma-separated strings between a pair of braces, followed by an optional postamble. T he preamble is prepended to each string contained within the braces, and the postamble is then appended to each resulting string, expanding left to right. Brace expansions may be nested. T he results of each expanded string are not sorted; left to right order is preserved. For example, a{d,c,b}e expands into ade ace abe . Brace expansion is performed before any other expansions, and any characters special to other expansions are preserved in the result. It is strictly textual. bash does not apply any syntactic interpretation to the context of the expansion or the text between the braces. A correctly formed brace expansion must contain unquoted opening and closing braces, and at least one unquoted comma. Any incorrectly formed brace expansion is left unchanged. This construct is typically used as shorthand when the common prefix of the strings to be generated is longer than in the preceding example, such as mkdir /usr/local/src/bash/{old,new,dist,bugs}

or chown root /usr/{ucb/{ex,edit},lib/{ex?.?*,how_ex}}

Brace expansion introduces a slight incompatibility with traditional versions of sh, the Bourne shell. sh does not treat opening or closing braces specially when they appear as part of a word, and preserves them in the output. bash removes braces from words as a consequence of brace expansion. For example, a word entered to sh as file{1,2} appears identically in the output. The same word is output as file1 file2 after expansion by bash. If strict compatibility with sh is desired, start bash with the –nobraceexpansion flag (see “Options,” earlier in this manual page) or disable brace expansion with the +o braceexpand option to the set command. (See “Shell Built-in Commands.”)

TILDE EXPANSION If a word begins with a tilde character (˜), all of the characters preceding the first slash (or all characters, if there is no slash) are treated as a possible login name. If this login name is the null string, the tilde is replaced with the value of the parameter HOME. If HOME is unset, the home directory of the user executing the shell is substituted instead. If a + follows the tilde, the value of PWD replaces the tilde and + If a – follows, the value of OLDPWD is substituted. If the value following the tilde is a valid login name, the tilde and login name are replaced with the home directory associated with that name. If the name is invalid, or the tilde expansion fails, the word is unchanged. Each variable assignment is checked for unquoted instances of tildes following a : or = . In these cases, tilde substitution is also performed. Consequently, one may use pathnames with tildes in assignments to PATH, MAILPATH , and CDPATH , and the shell assigns the expanded value.

PARAMETER EXPANSION The $ character introduces parameter expansion, command substitution, or arithmetic expansion. T he parameter name or symbol to be expanded may be enclosed in braces, which are optional but serve to protect the variable to be expanded from characters immediately following it which could be interpreted as part of the name. ${par amet er }

The value of par amet er is substituted. The braces are required when par amet er is a positional parameter with more than one digit, or when par amet er is followed by a character that is not to be interpreted as part of its name.

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${par amet er :–wor d}

Use default values. If par amet er is unset or null, the expansion of wor d is substituted. Otherwise, the value of par amet er is substituted.

${par amet er :=wor d}

Assign default values. If par amet er is unset or null, the expansion of word is assigned to parameter. The value of par amet er is then substituted. Positional parameters and special parameters may not be assigned to in this way.

${par amet er :?wor d}

Display Error if null or unset. If par amet er is null or unset, the expansion of wor d (or a message to that effect if wor d is not present) is written to the standard error and the shell, if it is not interactive, exits. Otherwise, the value of par amet er is substituted.

${par amet er :+wor d}

Use Alternate Value. If par amet er is null or unset, nothing is substituted; otherwise, the expansion of wor d is substituted.

${#par amet er }

The length in characters of the value of par amet er is substituted. If parameter is * or @, the length substituted is the length of * expanded within double quotes.

${par amet er #wor d}

The wor d is expanded to produce a pattern just as in pathname expansion. If the pattern matches the beginning of the value of par amet er , then the expansion is the value of par amet er with the shortest matching pattern deleted (the # case) or the longest matching pattern deleted (the ## case).

${par amet er ##wor d} ${par amet er %wor d} ${par amet er %%wor d}

The wor d is expanded to produce a pattern just as in pathname expansion. If the pattern matches a trailing portion of the value of par amet er , then the expansion is the value of par amet er with the shortest matching pattern deleted (the % case) or the longest matching pattern deleted (the %% case).

COMMAND SUBSTITUTION Command substitution allows the output of a command to replace the command name. There are two forms: $(command )

or ‘ command’

performs the expansion by executing command and replacing the command substitution with the standard output of the command, with any trailing newlines deleted. When the old–style backquote form of substitution is used, backslash retains its literal meaning except when followed by $, ‘, or \. When using the $(command) form, all characters between the parentheses make up the command; none are treated specially. Command substitutions may be nested. To nest when using the old form, escape the inner backquotes with backslashes. If the substitution appears within double quotes, word splitting and pathname expansion are not performed on the results.

ARITHMETIC EXPANSION Arithmetic expansion allows the evaluation of an arithmetic expression and the substitution of the result. T here are two formats for arithmetic expansion: $[expression] $((expression))

The expression is treated as if it were within double quotes, but a double quote inside the braces or parentheses is not treated specially. All tokens in the expression undergo parameter expansion, command substitution, and quote removal. Arithmetic substitutions may be nested. The evaluation is performed according to the rules listed under “Arithmetic Evaluation,” later in this section. If expr essi on is invalid , bash prints a message indicating failure and no substitution occurs.

PROCESS SUBSTITUTION Process substitution is supported on systems that support named pipes (FIFOs) or the /dev/fd method of naming open files. It takes the form of (l i st ). T he process list is run with its input or output connected to a FIFO or some file in /

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dev/fd. T he name of this file is passed as an argument to the current command as the result of the expansion. If the >(l i st )

form is used, writing to the file will provide input for list. If the di r l i st 2>&1

directs both standard output and standard error to the file di r l i st , while the command ls 2>&1 > di r l i st

directs only the standard output to file di r l i st , because the standard error was duplicated as standard output before the standard output was redirected to dirlist.

REDIRECTING INPUT Redirection of input causes the file whose name results from the expansion of word to be opened for reading on file descriptor n , or the standard input (file descriptor 0) if n is not specified. The general format for redirecting input is [n]wor d

If the redirection operator is >|, then the value of the -C option to the set built-in command is not tested, and file creation is attempted. (See also the description of noclobber under “Shell Variables,” earlier in this manual page.)

APPENDING REDIRECTED OUTPUT Redirection of output in this fashion causes the file whose name results from the expansion of word to be opened for appending on file descriptor n , or the standard output (file descriptor 1) if n is not specified. If the file does not exist, it is created. The general format for appending output is [n]>>wor d

REDIRECTING STANDARD OUTPUT AND STANDARD ERROR bash allows both the standard output (file descriptor 1) and the standard error output (file descriptor 2) to be redirected to the file whose name is the expansion of word with this construct.

There are two formats for redirecting standard output and standard error: &>wor d

and >&wor d

Of the two forms, the first is preferred. This is semantically equivalent to >wor d 2>&1

HERE-DOCUMENTS This type of redirection instructs the shell to read input from the current source until a line containing only word (with no trailing blanks) is seen. All of the lines read up to that point are then used as the standard input for a command.

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The format of here-documents is as follows: = e2 e1 > e2 e1 macro.

FILES /usr/dict/papers/Ind

Default database

f i l e.i Index files

SEE ALSO gindxbib (1), glookbib (1), lkbib(1)

BUGS In label expressions, expressions are ignored inside .char expressions.

Groff Version 1.09

grep, egrep, fgrep grep, egrep , fgrep—Print lines matching a pattern

SYNOPSIS grep [ –[[AB]]num ][–[CEFGVBchilnsvwx]][–e ] pat t er n j –ff i l e ][f i l es. . . ]

DESCRIPTION grep searches the named input f i l es (or standard input if no files are named, or the filename – is given) for lines containing a match to the given pat t er n . By default, grep prints the matching lines.

There are three major variants of grep , controlled by the following options: –G

Interpret pat t er n as a basic regular expression (see the list following this one). This is the default.

–E

Interpret pat t er n as an extended regular expression.

–F

Interpret pat t er n as a list of fixed strings, separated by newlines, any of which is to be matched.

In addition, two variant programs, egrep and fgrep , are available. egrep is similar (but not identical) to grepn–E, and is compatible with the historical UNIX egrep . Fgrep is the same as grepn–F. All variants of grep understand the following options:

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–num

Matches will be printed with num lines of leading and trailing context. However, grep will never print any given line more than once.

–A num

Print num lines of trailing context after matching lines.

–B num

Print num lines of leading context before matching lines.

–C

Equivalent to –2.

–V

Print the version number of grep to standard error. T his version number should be included in all bug reports.

–b

Print the byte offset within the input file before each line of output.

–c

Suppress normal output; instead print a count of matching lines for each input file. With the –v option, count nonmatching lines.

–e pat t er n

Use pat t er n as the pattern; useful to protect patterns beginning with –.

–f f i l e

Obtain the pattern from f i l e .

–h

Suppress the prefixing of filenames on output when multiple files are searched.

–i

Ignore case distinctions in both the pat t er n and the input files.

–L

Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each input file from which no output would normally have been printed.

–l

Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each input file from which output would normally have been printed.

–n

Prefix each line of output with the line number within its input file.

–q

Quiet; suppress normal output.

–s

Suppress error messages about nonexistent or unreadable files.

–v

Invert the sense of matching, to select nonmatching lines.

–w

Select only those lines containing matches that form whole words. T he test is that the matching substring must either be at the beginning of the line, or preceded by a nonword constituent character. Similarly, it must be either at the end of the line or followed by a nonword-constituent character. Word-constituent characters are letters, digits, and the underscore.

–x

Select only those matches that exactly match the whole line.

REGULAR EXPRESSIONS A regular expression is a pattern that describes a set of strings. Regular expressions are constructed analogously to arithmetic expressions, by using various operators to combine smaller expressions. grep understands two different versions of regular expression syntax: basic and extended. In GNU\grep, there is no difference

in available functionality using either syntax. In other implementations, basic regular expressions are less powerful. T he following description applies to extended regular expressions; differences for basic regular expressions are summarized afterwards. The fundamental building blocks are the regular expressions that match a single character. Most characters, including all letters and digits, are regular expressions that match themselves. Any meta character with special meaning may be quoted by preceding it with a backslash. A list of characters enclosed by [ and ] matches any single character in that list; if the first character of the list is the caret (ˆ) then it matches any character not in the list. For example, the regular expression [0123456789] matches any single digit. A range of ASCII characters may be specified by giving the first and last characters, separated by a hyphen. Finally, certain named classes of characters are predefined. Their names are self-explanatory, and they are [:alnum:] , [:alpha:] , [:cntrl:], [:digit:] , [:graph:] , [:lower:], [:print:] , [:punct:] , [:space:] , [:upper:] , and [:xdigit:] . For example, [[:alnum:]] means [0-9A-Za- z] , except the latter form is dependent upon the ASCII character encoding, whereas the former is portable. (Note that the brackets in these class names are part of the symbolic names, and must be included in addition to the brackets delimiting the bracket list.) Most meta characters lose their special meaning inside lists. To include a literal ], place it first in the list. Similarly, to include a literal ^, place it anywhere but first. Finally, to include a literal -– , place it last. The period matches any single character. The symbol \w is a synonym for [[:alnum:]] and \W is a synonym for [^[:alnum]] .

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The caret and the dollar sign are meta characters that respectively match the empty string at the beginning and end of a line. The symbols \< and \>, respectively, match the empty string at the beginning and end of a word. The symbol \b matches the empty string at the edge of a word, and \B matches the empty string provided it’s not at the edge of a word. A regular expression matching a single character may be followed by one of several repetition operators: ?

The preceding item is optional and matched at most once.

*

The preceding item will be matched zero or more times.

+

The preceding item will be matched one or more times.

n

The preceding item is matched exactly n times.

n,

The preceding item is matched n or more times.

,m

The preceding item is optional and is matched at most m times.

n,m

The preceding item is matched at least n times, but not more than m times.

Two regular expressions may be concatenated; the resulting regular expression matches any string formed by concatenating two substrings that respectively match the concatenated subexpressions. Two regular expressions may be joined by the infix operator |; the resulting regular expression matches any string matching either subexpression. Repetition takes precedence over concatenation, which in turn takes precedence over alternation. A whole subexpression may be enclosed in parentheses to override these precedence rules. The back reference \n , where n is a single digit, matches the substring previously matched by the n th parenthesized subexpression of the regular expression. In basic regular expressions, the meta characters |, (, and ) lose their special meaning; instead use the backslashed versions \?, \+, \f , \j, \(, and \). In egrep, the meta character { loses its special meaning; instead use \{.

DIAGNOSTICS Normally, exit status is 0 if matches were found, and 1 if no matches were found. (The .B –v option inverts the sense of the exit status.) Exit status is 2 if there were syntax errors in the pattern, inaccessible input files, or other system errors.

BUGS E-mail bug reports to [email protected]. Be sure to include the word grep somewhere in the “Subject:” field. Large repetition counts in the m ,n construct may cause grep to use lots of memory. In addition, certain other obscure regular expressions require exponential time and space, and may cause grep to run out of memory. Back references are very slow, and may require exponential time.

GNU Project, 10 September 1992

grephistory grephistory —Display filenames from Usenet history file

SYNOPSIS grephistory [ –f f i l ename ][–e ][–n ][–q ][–l ][–i ][–s ][messagei d ]

DESCRIPTION grephistory queries the dbz(3) index into the history (5) file for an article having a specified Message ID.

If messageid cannot be found in the database, the program prints “Not found” and exits with a nonzero status. If messageid is in the database, the program prints the pathname and exits successfully. If no pathname exists, the program will print /dev/

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null and exit successfully. This can happen when an article has been canceled, or if it has been expired but its history is still

retained. This is default behavior, which can be obtained by using the –n flag. If the –q flag is used, then no message is displayed. The program will still exit with the appropriate exit status. If the –e flag is used, then gr ephi st or y will only print the filename of an existing article. If the –l flag is used, then the entire line from the history file will be displayed. If the –i flag is used, then gr ephi st or y will read a list of Message-IDs on standard input, one per line. Leading and trailing whitespace is ignored, as are any malformed lines. It will print on standard output those Message-IDs that are not found in the history database. This flag is used in processing ihave control messages. If the –s flag is used, then gr ephi st or y will read a similar list from its standard input. It will print on standard output a list of filenames for each article that is still available. T his flag is used in processing sendme control messages. To specify a different value for the history file and database, use the –f flag.

HISTORY Written by Rich $alz ([email protected] ) for InterNetNews.

SEE ALSO dbz(3), history(5)

grodvi grodvi—Convert groff output to T eX dvi format

SYNOPSIS grodvi [ –dv ][–wn ][–Fdi r ][f i l es ... ]

DESCRIPTION grodvi is a driver for groff that produces dvi format. Normally, it should be run by groff–Tdvi . This will run gtroff–Tdvi ; it

will also input the macros /usr/lib/groff/tmac/tmac.dvi; if the input is being preprocessed with geqn, it will also input /usr/ lib/groff/font/devdvi/eqnchar.

The dvi file generated by grodvi can be printed by any correctly written dvi driver. The troff drawing primitives are implemented using the tpic version 2 specials. If the driver does not support these, the \D commands will not produce any output. There is an additional drawing command available: \D’Rdhdv’

Draw a rule (solid black rectangle), with one corner at the current position, and the diagonally opposite corner at the current position +(dh,dv) . Afterwards, the current position will be at the opposite corner. This produces a rule in the dvi file and so can be printed even with a driver that does not support the tpic specials, unlike the other \D commands.

The groff command \X’anyt hi ng’ is translated into the same command in the dvi file as would be produced by \special{ anything } in T eX; anyt hi ng may not contain a newline.

Font files for grodvi can be created from tfm files using tfmtodit (1). The font description file should contain the following additional commands: internalname name

The name of the tfm file (without the .tfm extension) is name .

checksum n

The checksum in the tfm file is n .

designsize n

The designsize in the tfm file is n .

These are automatically generated by tfmtodit.

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In troff, the \N escape sequence can be used to access characters by their position in the corresponding tfm file; all characters in the tfm file can be accessed this way.

OPTIONS –d

Do not use tpic specials to implement drawing commands. Horizontal and vertical lines will be implemented by rules. Other drawing commands will be ignored.

–v

Print the version number.

–wn

Set the default line thickness to n thousandths of an em.

–Fdi r

Search directory di r /devdvi for font and device description files.

FILES /usr/lib/groff/font/devdvi/DESC

Device description file

/usr/lib/groff/font/devdvi/ F

Font description file for font F

/usr/lib/groff/tmac/tmac.dvi

Macros for use with grodvi

BUGS dvi files produced by grodvi use a different resolution (57,816 units per inch) than those produced by TeX. Incorrectly written drivers that assume the resolution used by TeX, rather than using the resolution specified in the dvi file, will not work with grodvi.

When using the –d option with boxed tables, vertical and horizontal lines can sometimes protrude by one pixel. This is a consequence of the way TeX requires that the heights and widths of rules be rounded.

SEE ALSO tfmtodit (1), groff (1), gtroff(1), geqn(1), groff_out (5), groff_font (5), groff_char (7)

Groff Version 1.09 14

groff groff—Front end for the groff document formatting system

SYNOPSIS groff [ –tpeszaivhblCENRVXZ][–wname ][–Wname ][–mname ][–Fdi r ][–Tdev ] [ –ff am ][–Mdi r ][–dcs ][–rcn ][–nnum ] [–ol i st ][–Par g ][f i l es ... ]

DESCRIPTION groff is a front-end to the groff document formatting system. Normally, it runs the gtroff program and a postprocessor appropriate for the selected device. Available devices are ps

For PostScript printers and previewers

dvi

For TeX dvi format

X75

For a 75 dpi X11 previewer

X100

For a 100dpi X11 previewer

ascii

For typewriter-like devices

latin1

For typewriter-like devices using the ISO Latin-1 character set.

The postprocessor to be used for a device is specified by the postpro command in the device description file. This can be overridden with the –X option. The default device is ps. It can optionally preprocess with any of gpic , geqn, gtbl , grefer, or gsoelim .

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Options without an argument can be grouped behind a single –. A filename of – denotes the standard input. The grog command can be used to guess the correct groff command to use to format a file.

OPTIONS –h

Print a help message.

–e

Preprocess with geqn.

–t

Preprocess with gtbl.

–p

Preprocess with gpic.

–s

Preprocess with gsoelim.

–R

Preprocess with grefer. No mechanism is provided for passing arguments to grefer because most grefer options have equivalent commands that can be included in the file. See grefer(1) for more details.

–v

Make programs run by groff print out their version number.

–V

Print the pipeline on stdout instead of executing it.

–z

Suppress output from gtroff. O nly error messages will be printed.

–Z

Do not postprocess the output of gtroff . Normally, groff will automatically run the appropriate postprocessor.

–Par g

Pass ar g to the postprocessor. Each argument should be passed with a separate –P option. Note that groff does not prepend – to ar g before passing it to the postprocessor.

–l

Send the output to a printer. The command used for this is specified by the print command in the device description file.

–Lar g

Pass ar g to the spooler. Each argument should be passed with a separate –L option. Note that groff does not prepend – to ar g before passing it to the postprocessor.

–Tdev

Prepare output for device dev . The default device is ps.

–X

Preview with gxditview instead of using the usual postprocessor. This is unlikely to produce good results except with –Tps.

–N

Don’t allow newlines with eqn delimiters. This is the same as the –N option in geqn.

The options –a, –b , –i, –C, –E, –wname , –Wname , –mname , –ol i st , –dcs , –rcn , –Fdi r , –Mdi r , –ff am, and –nnum are described in gtroff(1).

ENVIRONMENT GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX

If this is set X, then groff will run Xtroff instead of gtroff. This also applies to tbl , pic, eqn, refer , and soelim . It does not apply to grops, grodvi , grotty, and gxditview.

GROFF_TMAC_PATH

A colon-separated list of directories in which to search for macro files.

GROFF_TYPESETTER

Default device.

GROFF_FONT_PATH

A colon-separated list of directories in which to search for the devname directory.

PATH

The search path for commands executed by groff .

GROFF_TMPDIR

The directory in which temporary files will be created. If this is not set and TMPDIR is set, temporary files will be created in that directory. Otherwise, temporary files will be created in /tmp. T he grops(1) and grefer (1) commands can create temporary files.

FILES /usr/lib/groff/font/devname/DESC

Device description file for device name.

/usr/lib/groff/font/devname/F

Font file for font F of device name.

AUTHOR James Clark ([email protected])

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BUGS Report bugs to [email protected]. Include a complete, self-contained example that will allow the bug to be reproduced, and say which version of groff you are using.

COPYRIGHT Copyright 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc. groff is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. groff is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of

merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with groff; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

AVAILABILITY The most recent released version of groff is always available for anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu (18.71.0.38) in the directory pub/gnu.

SEE ALSO grog(1), gtroff (1), gtbl (1), gpic (1), geqn (1), gsoelim (1), grefer(1), grops(1), grodvi(1), grotty (1), gxditview (1), groff_font (5), grof_out(5), groff_ms (7), groff_me (7), groff_char (7)

Groff Version 1.09, 29 October 1992

grog grog—Guess options for groff command

SYNOPSIS grog [ –opt i on ...][f i l es ... ]

DESCRIPTION grog reads f i l es and guesses which of the groff(1) options –e, –man , –me, –mm, –ms , –p, –s,and –t are required for printing f i l es , and prints the groff command including those options on the standard output. A filename of – is taken to refer to the standard input. If no files are specified, the standard input will be read. Any specified options will be included in the printed command. No space is allowed between options and their arguments. For example, ‘grog –Tdvi paper.ms’

will guess the appropriate command to print paper.ms and then run it after adding the –Tdvi option.

SEE ALSO doctype (1), groff (1), gtroff (1), gtbl(1), gpic(1), geqn(1), gsoelim(1)

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grops grops—PostScript driver for groff

SYNOPSIS grops [ –glv ][–bn ][–cn ][–wn ][–Fdi r ][f i l es ... ]

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DESCRIPTION grops translates the output of GNU troff to PostScript. Normally, grops should be invoked by using the groff command

with a –Tps option. If no files are given, grops will read the standard input. A filename of – will also cause grops to read the standard input. PostScript output is written to the standard output. When grops is run by groff, options can be passed to grops by using the groff –P option.

OPTIONS –bn

Work around broken spoolers and previewers. Normally grops produces output that conforms the Document Structuring Conventions version 3.0. Unfortunately, some spoolers and previewers can’t handle such output. The value of n controls what grops does to its output acceptable to such programs. A value of 0 will cause grops not to employ any workarounds. Add 1 if no %%BeginDocumentSetup and %%EndDocumentSetup comments should be generated; this is needed for early versions of TranScript that get confused by anything between the %%EndProlog comment and the first %%Page comment. Add 2 if lines in included files beginning with %! should be stripped out; this is needed for Sun’s pageview previewer. Add 4 if %%Page, %%Trailer , and %%EndProlog comments should be stripped out of included files; this is needed for spoolers that don’t understand the %%BeginDocument and %%EndDocument comments. Add 8 if the first line of the PostScript output should be %!PS-Adobe-2.0 rather than %!PS-Adobe-3.0; this is needed when using Sun’s Newsprint with a printer that requires page reversal. The default value can be specified by a brokenn command in the DESC file. Otherwise, the default value is 0.

–cn

Print n copies of each page.

–g

Guess the page length. This generates PostScript code that guesses the page length. T he guess will be correct only if the imageable area is vertically centered on the page. This option allows you to generate documents that can be printed both on letter (8.5 ×11) paper and on A4 paper without change.

–l

Print the document in landscape format.

–Fdi r

Search the directory di r /devname for font and device description files; name is the name of the device, usually ps.

–wn

Lines should be drawn using a thickness of n thousandths of an em.

–v

Print the version number.

USAGE There are styles called R, I, B, and BI mounted at font positions 1 to 4. The fonts are grouped into families A, BM , C, H, HN, N, P, and T having members in each of these styles: AR

AvantGarde-Book

AI

AvantGarde-BookOblique

AB

AvantGarde-Demi

ABI

AvantGarde-DemiOblique

BMR

Bookman-Light

BMI

Bookman-LightItalic

BMB

Bookman-Demi

BMBI

Bookman-DemiItalic

CR

Courier

CI

Courier-Oblique

CB

Courier-Bold

CBI

Courier-BoldOblique

HR

Helvetica

HI

Helvetica-Oblique

HB

Helvetica-Bold

HBI

Helvetica-BoldOblique

HNR

Helvetica-Narrow

HNI

Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique

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HNB

Helvetica-Narrow-Bold

HNBI

Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique

NR

NewCenturySchlbk-Roman

NI

NewCenturySchlbk-Italic

NB

NewCenturySchlbk-Bold

NBI

NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic

PR

Palatino-Roman

PI

Palatino-Italic

PB

Palatino-Bold

PBI

Palatino-BoldItalic

TR

Times-Roman

TI

Times-Italic

TB

Times-Bold

TBI

Times-BoldItalic

There is also the following font which is not a member of a family: ZCMI

ZapfChancery-MediumItalic

There are also some special fonts called SS and S. Zapf Dingbats is available as ZD and a reversed version of ZapfDingbats (with symbols pointing in the opposite direction) is available as ZDR; most characters in these fonts are unnamed and must be accessed using \N. grops understands various X commands produced using the \X escape sequence; grops will only interpret commands that begin with a ps: tag. \X’ps:exec code’

This executes the arbitrary PostScript commands in code. T he PostScript currentpoint will be set to the position of the \nX command before executing code . T he origin will be at the top left corner of the page, and y coordinates will increase down the page. A procedure u will be defined that converts groff units to the coordinate system in effect. For example, \X’ps: exec \nx u 0 rlineto stroke’

will draw a horizontal line one inch long. code may make changes to the graphics state, but any changes will persist only to the end of the page. A dictionary containing the definitions specified by def and mdef will be on top of the dictionary stack. If your code adds definitions to this dictionary, you should allocate space for them using \X’psmdef n’ . Any definitions will persist only until the end of the page. If you use the \Y escape sequence with an argument that names a macro, code can extend over multiple lines. For example, .nr x 1i .de y ps: exec \nx u 0 rlineto stroke .. \Yy

is another way to draw a horizontal line one inch long. \X’ps:f i l ename’

This is the same as the exec command except that the PostScript code is read from file name .

\X’ps:def code’

Place a PostScript definition contained in code in the prologue. There should be at most one definition per \X command. Long definitions can be split over several \X commands; all the code arguments are simply joined together separated by newlines. The definitions are placed in a dictionary which is automatically pushed on the dictionary stack when an exec command is executed. If you use the \Y escape sequence with an argument that names a macro, code can extend over multiple lines.

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\X’ps:mdef ncode’

Like def, except that code may contain up to n definitions. grops needs to know how many definitions code contains so that it can create an appropriately sized PostScript dictionary to contain them.

\X’ps:importfile

Import a PostScript graphic from file. The arguments llx, lly , urx, and ury give the bounding box of the graphic in the default PostScript coordinate system; they should all be integers; llx and lly are the x and y coordinates of the lower-left corner of the graphic; urx and ury are the x and y coordinates of the upper-right corner of the graphic; wi dt h and hei ght are integers that give the desired width and height in groff units of the graphic. The graphic will be scaled so that it has this width and height and translated so that the lower-left corner of the graphic is located at the position associated with \X command. If the height argument is omitted, it will be scaled uniformly in the x and y directions so that it has the specified width. Note that the contents of the \X command are not interpreted by troff ; so vertical space for the graphic is not automatically added, and the width and height arguments are not allowed to have attached scaling indicators. If the PostScript file complies with the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions and contains a %%BoundingBox comment, then the bounding box can be automatically extracted from within groff by using the sy request to run the psbb command.

llxllyurxurywidth [height]’

The –mps macros (which are automatically loaded when grops is run by the groff command) include a PSPIC macro that allows a picture to be easily imported. This has the format: .PSPIC file [ –L j -R j –I n ][width [ height ]] f i l e is the name of the file containing the illustration; wi dt h and hei ght give the desired width and height of the graphic. The wi dt h and hei ght arguments may have scaling indicators attached; the default scaling indicator is i. This macro will scale the

graphic uniformly in the x and y directions so that it is no more than wi dt h wide and hei ght high. By default, the graphic will be horizontally centered. The –L and –R cause the graphic to be left-aligned and right-aligned, respectively. T he –I option causes the graphic to be indented by n . \X’ps: invis’ , \X’ps: endinvis’

No output will be generated for text and drawing commands that are bracketed with these \X commands. T hese commands are intended for use when output from troff will be previewed before being processed with grops ; if the previewer is unable to display certain characters or other constructs, then other substitute characters or constructs can be used for previewing by bracketing them with these \X commands.

For example, gxditview is not able to display a proper \(em character because the standard X11 fonts do not provide it; this problem can be overcome by executing the following request: .char \(em \X’ps: invis’\ \Z’\v’-.25m’\h’.05m’\D’l .9m 0'\h’.05m”\ \X’ps: endinvis’\(em

In this case, gxditview will be unable to display the \(em character and will draw the line, whereas grops will print the \(em character and ignore the line. The input to grops must be in the format output by gtroff(1). This is described in groff_out (1). In addition, the device and font description files for the device used must meet certain requirements. The device and font description files supplied for ps device meet all these requirements. afmtodit (1) can be used to create font files from AFM files. The resolution must be an integer multiple of 72 times the sizescale. The ps device uses a resolution of 72000 and a sizescale of 1000. The device description file should contain a command: paperlengthn

which says that output should be generated that is suitable for printing on a page whose length is n machine units. Each font description file must contain a command: internalnamepsname

which says that the PostScript name of the font is psname . It may also contain a command: encodingenc f i l e

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which says that the PostScript font should be reencoded using the encoding described in enc_f i l e ; this file should consist of a sequence of lines of the form: pschar code

where pschar is the PostScript name of the character, and code is its position in the encoding expressed as a decimal integer. The code for each character given in the font file must correspond to the code for the character in encoding file, or to the code in the default encoding for the font if the PostScript font is not to be reencoded. T his code can be used with the \N escape sequence in troff to select the character, even if the character does not have a groff name. Every character in the font file must exist in the PostScript font, and the widths given in the font file must match the widths used in the PostScript font. grops will assume that a character with a groff name of space is blank (makes no marks on the page); it can make use of such a character to generate more efficient and compact PostScript output. grops can automatically include the downloadable fonts necessary to print the document. Any downloadable fonts which

should, when required, be included by grops must be listed in the file /usr/lib/groff/font/devps/download; this should consist of lines of the form: f ont f i l ename

where f ont is the PostScript name of the font, and f i l ename is the name of the file containing the font; lines beginning with # and blank lines are ignored; fields may be separated by tabs or spaces; f i l ename will be searched for using the same mechanism that is used for groff font metric files. The download file itself will also be searched for using this mechanism. If the file containing a downloadable font or imported document conforms to the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions, then grops will interpret any comments in the files sufficiently to ensure that its own output is conforming. It will also supply any needed font resources that are listed in the download file as well as any needed file resources. It is also able to handle interresource dependencies. For example, suppose that you have a downloadable font called Garamond, and also a downloadable font called Garamond-Outline that depends on Garamond (typically, it would be defined to copy Garamond’s font dictionary, and change the PaintType), then it is necessary for Garamond to appear before Garamond-Outline in the PostScript document. grops will handle this automatically provided that the downloadable font file for Garamond-Outline indicates its dependence on Garamond by means of the Document Structuring Conventions, for example by beginning with the following lines: %!PS-Adobe-3.0 Resource-Font %%DocumentNeededResources: font Garamond %%EndComments %%IncludeResource: font Garamond

In this case, both Garamond and Garamond-Outline would need to be listed in the download file. A downloadable font should not include its own name in a %%DocumentSuppliedResources comment. grops will not interpret %%DocumentFonts comments.

The %%DocumentNeededResources, %%DocumentSuppliedResources, %%IncludeResource , %%BeginResource, and %%EndResource comments (or possibly the old %%DocumentNeededFonts, %%DocumentSuppliedFonts, %%IncludeFont , %%BeginFont , and %%EndFont comments) should be used.

FILES /usr/lib/groff/font/devps/DESC

Device description file

/usr/lib/groff/font/devps/F

Font description file for font F

/usr/lib/groff/font/devps/download

List of downloadable fonts.

/usr/lib/groff/font/devps/text.enc

Encoding used for text fonts

/usr/lib/groff/tmac/tmac.ps

Macros for use with grops; automatically loaded by troffrc

/usr/lib/groff/tmac/tmac.pspic

Definition of PSPIC macro, automatically loaded by tmac.ps

/usr/lib/groff/tmac/tmac.psold

Macros to disable use of characters not present in older PostScript printers; automatically loaded by tmac.ps

/usr/lib/groff/tmac/tmac.psnew

Macros to undo the effect of tmac.psold

/tmp/gropsXXXXXX

Temporary file

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SEE ALSO afmtodit (1), groff (1), gtroff(1), psbb(1), groff_out (5), groff_font (5), groff_char (7)

Groff Version 1.09, 14 February 1995

grotty grotty— groff driver for typewriter-like devices

SYNOPSIS grotty [ –hfbuodBUv ][–Fdi r ][f i l es ... ]

DESCRIPTION grotty translates the output of GNU troff into a form suitable for typewriter-like devices. Normally, grotty should invoked

by using the groff command with a –Tascii or –Tlatin1 option. If no files are given, grotty will read the standard input. A filename of – will also cause grotty to read the standard input. Output is written to the standard output. Normally, grotty prints a bold character c using the sequence ‘c BACKSPACE c’ and an italic character c by the sequence ‘_BACKSPACE c’ . T hese sequences can be displayed on a terminal by piping through ul(1). Pagers such as more (1) or less (1)

are also able to display these sequences. Use either –B or –U when piping into less(1); use –b when piping into more (1). T here is no need to filter the output through col(1) since grotty never outputs reverse line feeds. The font description file may contain a command: internalnamen

where n is a decimal integer. If the 01 bit in n is set, then the font will be treated as an italic font; if the 02 bit is set, then it will be treated as a bold font. T he code field in the font description field gives the code that will be used to output the character. This code can also be used in the \N escape sequence in troff.

OPTIONS –Fdi r

Search the directory di r /devname for font and device description files; name is the name of the device, usually ascii or latin1 .

–h

Use horizontal tabs in the output. Tabs are assumed to be set every 8 columns.

–f

Use form feeds in the output. A form feed will be output at the end of each page that has no output on its last line.

–b

Suppress the use of overstriking for bold characters.

–u

Suppress the use of underlining for italic characters.

–B

Use only overstriking for bold-italic characters.

–U

Use only underlining for bold-italic characters.

–o

Suppress overstriking (other than for bold or underlined characters).

–d

Ignore all \D commands. Without this, grotty will render \D’l ...’ commands that have at least one zero argument (and so are either horizontal or vertical) using –, |, and + characters.

–v

Print the version number.

FILES /usr/lib/groff/font/devascii/DESC

Device description file for ascii device.

/usr/lib/groff/font/devascii/F

Font description file for font F of ascii device.

/usr/lib/groff/font/devlatin1/DESC

Device description file for latin1 device.

/usr/lib/groff/font/devlatin1/F

Font description file for font F of latin1 device.

/usr/lib/groff/tmac/tmac.tty

Macros for use with grotty.

/usr/lib/groff/tmac/tmac.tty-char

Additional kludgy character definitions for use with grotty.

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BUGS grotty is intended only for simple documents.

There is no support for fractional horizontal or vertical motions. There is no support for \D commands other than horizontal and vertical lines. Characters above the first line (that is, with a vertical position of 0) cannot be printed.

SEE ALSO groff(1), gtroff (1), groff_out (5), groff_font (5), groff_char (7), ul(1), more(1), less(1)

Groff Version1.09, 14 February 1995

gsoelim gsoelim —Interpret .so requests in groff input

SYNOPSIS gsoelim [ –Cv ][f i l es ... ]

DESCRIPTION gsoelim reads f i l es and replaces lines of the form .sofile

by the contents of f i l e . It is useful if files included with so need to be preprocessed. Normally, gsoelim should be invoked with the –s option of groff.

OPTIONS –C

Recognize .so even when followed by a character other than space or newline

–v

Print the version number

SEE ALSO groff(1)

Groff Version1.09, 15 September 1992

gtbl gtbl—Format tables for troff

SYNOPSIS gtbl [ –Cv ][f i l es ... ]

DESCRIPTION This manual page describes the GNU version of tbl, which is part of the groff document formatting system. tbl compiles descriptions of tables embedded within troff input files into commands that are understood by troff . Normally, it should be invoked using the –t option of groff . It is highly compatible with UNIX tbl. T he output generated by GNU tbl cannot be processed with UNIX troff; it must be processed with GNU troff. If no files are given on the command line, the standard input will be read. A filename of – will cause the standard input to be read.

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OPTIONS –C

Recognize .TS and .TE even when followed by a character other than space or newline

–v

Print the version number

USAGE Only the differences between GNU tbl and UNIX tbl are described here. Normally, tbl attempts to prevent undesirable breaks in the table by using diversions. This can sometimes interact badly with macro packages’ own use of diversions, when footnotes, for example, are used. The nokeep option tells tbl not to try to prevent breaks in this way. The decimalpoint option specifies the character to be recognized as the decimal point character in place of the default period. It takes an argument in parentheses, which must be a single character, as for the tab option. The f format modifier can be followed by an arbitrary length font name in parentheses. There is a d format modifier that means that a vertically spanning entry should be aligned at the bottom of its range. There is no limit on the number of columns in a table, nor any limit on the number of text blocks. All the lines of a table are considered in deciding column widths, not just the first 200. Table continuation (.T&) lines are not restricted to the first 200 lines. Numeric and alphabetic items may appear in the same column. Numeric and alphabetic items may span horizontally. tbl uses register, string, macro and diversion names beginning with 3. When using tbl, you should avoid using any names

beginning with a 3.

BUGS You should use .TSH/.TH in conjunction with a supporting macro package for all multipage boxed tables. If there is no header that you want to appear at the top of each page of the table, place the .TH line immediately after the format section. Do not enclose a multipage table within keep/release macros, or divert it in any other way. A text block within a table must be able to fit on one page. The bp request cannot be used to force a page-break in a multipage table. Instead, define BP as follows: .de BP .ie ‘\\n(.z” .bp \\$1 .el \!.BP \\$1 ..

and use BP instead of bp.

SEE ALSO groff(1), gtroff (1)

Groff Version 1.09, 1 April 1993

gtroff gtroff—Format documents

SYNOPSIS gtroff [–abivzCER] [–w name] [–W name] [–d cs] [–f f am] [–m name] [–n num] [–o l i st ] [–r cn] [–T name] [–F di r ] [–M di r ] [nf i l es. . . n]

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DESCRIPTION This manual page describes the GNU version of troff, which is part of the groff document formatting system. It is highly compatible with UNIX troff. Usually, it should be invoked using the groff command, which will also run preprocessors and postprocessors in the appropriate order and with the appropriate options.

OPTIONS –a

Generate an ASCII approximation of the typeset output.

–b

Print a backtrace with each warning or error message. This backtrace should help track down the cause of the error. The line numbers given in the backtrace may not always correct: troff’s idea of line numbers gets confused by as or am requests.

–i

Read the standard input after all the named input files have been processed.

–v

Print the version number.

–wname

Enable warning name . Available warnings are described in the “Warnings” subsection as follows. Multiple –w options are allowed.

–Wname

Inhibit warning name . Multiple –W options are allowed.

–E

Inhibit all error messages.

–z

Suppress formatted output.

–C

Enable compatibility mode.

–dcs , –dname=s

Define c or name to be a string s ; c must be a one-letter name.

–ff am

Use f am as the default font family.

–mname

Read in the file tmac.name . Normally, this will be searched for in /usr/lib/groff/tmac .

–R

Don’t load troffrc .

–nnum

Number the first page num.

–ol i st

Output only pages in l i st , which is a comma-separated list of page ranges; n means print page n , m–n means print every page between m and n , –n means print every page up to n , n– means print every page from n . Troff will exit after printing the last page in the list.

–rcn , –rname=n

Set number register c or name to n ; c must be a one-character name; n can be any troff numeric expression.

–Tname

Prepare output for device name , rather than the default ps.

–Fdi r

Search di r for subdirectories devname (name is the name of the device) for the DESC file and font files before the normal /usr/lib/groff/font.

–Mdi r

Search directory di r for macro files before the normal /usr/lib/groff/tmac.

USAGE Only the features not in UNIX troff are described here.

LONG NAMES The names of number registers, fonts, strings/macros/diversions, special characters can be of any length. In escape sequences, where you can use (xx for a two-character name, you can use [xxx] for a name of arbitrary length: \[xxx]

Print the special character called xxx .

\f[xxx]

Set font xxx .

\*[xxx]

Interpolate string xxx .

\n[xxx]

Interpolate number register xxx .

FRACTIONAL POINT SIZES A scaled point is equal to 1/sizescale points, where sizescale is specified in the DESC file (1 by default.) There is a new scale indicator z that has the effect of multiplying by sizescale. Requests and escape sequences in troff interpret arguments that represent a point size as being in units of scaled points, but they evaluate each such argument using a default scale indicator

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of z. Arguments treated in this way are the argument to the ps request, the third argument to the cs request, the second and fourth arguments to the tkf request, the argument to the \H escape sequence, and those variants of the \s escape sequence that take a numeric expression as their argument. For example, suppose sizescale is 1,000; then a scaled point will be equivalent to a millipoint; the request .ps 10.25 is equivalent to .ps 10.25z , and so sets the point size to 10,250 scaled points, which is equal to 10.25 points. The number register \n(.s returns the point size in points as decimal fraction. There is also a new number register \n[.ps] that returns the point size in scaled points. It would make no sense to use the z scale indicator in a numeric expression whose default scale indicator was neither u nor z, and so troff disallows this. Similarly, it would make no sense to use a scaling indicator other than z or u in a numeric expression whose default scale indicator was z, and so troff disallows this as well. There is also new scale indicator s that multiplies by the number of units in a scaled point. So, for example, \n[.ps]s is equal to 1m . Be sure not to confuse the s and z scale indicators.

NUMERIC EXPRESSIONS Spaces are permitted in a number expression within parentheses. M indicates a scale of hundredths of an em. e1>?e2

The maximum of e1 and e2 .

e1