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bootparam(7) -- Introduction to boot time parameters of the Linux kernel
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The Linux kernel accepts certain `command line options' or `boot time parameters' at the moment it is started. In general this is used to supply the kernel with information about hardware parameters... |
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charsets(7) -- programmer's view of character sets and internationalization
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Linux is an international operating system. Various of its utilities and device drivers (including the console driver) support multilingual character sets including Latin-alphabet letters with diacrit... |
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ddp(7) -- Linux AppleTalk protocol implementation
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Linux implements the Appletalk protocols described in Inside Appletalk. Only the DDP layer and AARP are present in the kernel. They are designed to be used via the netatalk protocol libraries. This pa... |
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environ(7) -- user environment
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The variable environ points to an array of strings called the `environment'. (This variable must be declared in the user program, but is declared in the header file unistd.h in case the header files ... |
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glob(7) -- Globbing pathnames
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Long ago, in Unix V6, there was a program /etc/glob that would expand wildcard patterns. Soon afterwards this became a shell built-in. These days there is also a library routine glob(3) that will perf... |
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hier(7) -- Description of the file system hierarchy
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A typical Linux system has, among others, the following directories: / This is the root directory. This is where the whole tree starts. /bin This directory contains executable programs which are neede... |
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icmp(7) -- Linux IPv4 ICMP kernel module.
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This kernel protocol module implements the Internet Control Message Protocol defined in RFC792. It is used to signal error conditions and for diagnosis. The user doesn't interact directly with this m... |
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intro(7) -- Introduction to conventions and miscellany section
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This chapter describes conventions and protocols, character set standards, the standard file system layout, and miscellaneous other things. |
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ip(7) -- Linux IPv4 protocol implementation
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Linux implements the Internet Protocol, version 4, described in RFC791 and RFC1122. ip contains a level 2 multicasting implementation conforming to RFC1112. It also contains an IP router including a p... |
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ipv6(7) -- Linux IPv6 protocol implementation
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Linux 2.2 optionally implements the Internet Protocol, version 6. This man page contains a description of the IPv6 basic API as implemented by the Linux kernel and glibc 2.1. The interface is based on... |
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iso_8859-1(7) -- the ISO 8859-1 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
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The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). Especially important is ISO 8859-1, the "Latin Alphabet No. 1", which has become widel... |
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iso_8859-15(7) -- the ISO 8859-15 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
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The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). Especially important is ISO 8859-1, the "Latin Alphabet No. 1", which has become widel... |
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iso_8859-2(7) -- the ISO 8859-2 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
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The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-2, the "Latin Alphabet No. 2" is used to encode Central and Eastern European ... |
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iso_8859-7(7) -- the ISO 8859-7 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
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The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-7 encodes the characters used in modern monotonic Greek. ISO 8859 Alphabets ... |
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koi8-r(7) -- Russian Net Character Set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
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KOI8-R is the character set of choice for encoding Russian texts for many Unix-like operation systems. KOI8-R is a successor for KOI-8, a de-facto standard for Internet Mail, News, WWW and other inter... |
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LDP(7) -- Intro to the Linux Documentation Project, with help, guides and documents
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libpcre(7) -- Perl-compatible regular expressions: expresion syntax.
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locale(7) -- Description of multi-language support
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A locale is a set of language and cultural rules. These cover aspects such as language for messages, different character sets, lexigraphic conventions, etc. A program needs to be able to determine its... |
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mailaddr(7) -- mail addressing description
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This manual page gives a brief introduction to SMTP mail addresses, as used on the Internet. These addresses are in the general format user@domain where a domain is a hierarchical dot separated list o... |
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man(7) -- macros to format man pages
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This manual page explains the groff tmac.an macro package (often called the man macro package) and related conventions for creating manual (man) pages. This macro package should be used by developers ... |
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mdoc(7) -- quick reference guide for the -mdoc macro package
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The -mdoc package is a set of content-based and domain-based macros used to format the BSD man pages. The macro names and their meanings are listed below for quick reference; for a detailed explanatio... |
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mdoc.samples(7) -- tutorial sampler for writing BSD manuals with -mdoc
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A tutorial sampler for writing BSD manual pages with the -mdoc macro package, a content-based and domain-based formatting package for troff(1). Its predecessor, the -man(7) package, addressed page lay... |
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netdevice(7) -- Low level access to Linux network devices.
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This man page describes the sockets interface which is used to configure network devices. Linux supports some standard ioctls to configure network devices. They can be used on any socket's file descr... |
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netlink(7) -- Communication between kernel and user.
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Netlink is used to transfer information between kernel modules and user space processes. It consists of a standard sockets based interface for user processes and an internal kernel API for kernel modu... |
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packet(7) -- packet interface on device level.
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Packet sockets are used to receive or send raw packets at the device driver (OSI Layer 2) level. They allow the user to implement protocol modules in user space on top of the physical layer. The socke... |
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pam(7) -- Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux
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This manual is intended to offer a quick introduction to Linux-PAM. For more information the reader is directed to the Linux-PAM system administrators' guide. Linux-PAM Is a system of libraries that ... |
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pam-undocumented(7) -- No manpage for this PAM-related program, utility or function.
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This program, utility or function does not have a useful manpage. There is however documentation available for it in the libpam-doc package, which contains The Linux-PAM System Administrator's Guide,... |
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raw(7) -- Linux IPv4 raw sockets
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Raw sockets allow new IPv4 protocols to be implemented in user space. A raw socket receives or sends the raw datagram not including link level headers. The IPv4 layer generates an IP header when sendi... |
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regex(7) -- POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions
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Regular expressions (``RE''s), as defined in POSIX 1003.2, come in two forms: modern REs (roughly those of egrep; 1003.2 calls these ``extended'' REs) and obsolete REs (roughly those of ed(1); 100... |
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rtnetlink(7) -- Linux IPv4 routing socket.
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Rtnetlink allows the kernel's routing tables to be read and altered. It is used within the kernel to communicate between various subsystems, though this usage is not documented here, and for communic... |
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sane(7) -- Scanner Access Now Easy: API for accessing scanners
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SANE is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware. The standardized interface makes it possible to write just one driver for eac... |
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signal(7) -- list of available signals
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Linux supports the signals listed below. Several signal numbers are architecture dependent. First the signals described in POSIX.1. Signal Value Action Comment ----------------------------------------... |
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socket(7) -- Linux socket interface
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This manual page describes the Linux networking socket layer user interface. The BSD compatible sockets are the uniform interface between the user process and the network protocol stacks in the kernel... |
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suffixes(7) -- list of file suffixes
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It is customary to indicate the contents of a file with the file suffix, which consists of a period, followed by one or more letters. Many standard utilities, such as compilers, use this to recognize ... |
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tcp(7) -- TCP protocol.
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This is an implementation of the TCP protocol defined in RFC793, RFC1122 and RFC2001 with the NewReno and SACK extensions. It provides a reliable, stream oriented, full duplex connection between two s... |
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term(7) -- conventions for naming terminal types
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The environment variable TERM should normally contain the type name of the terminal, console or display-device type you are using. This information is critical for all screen-oriented programs, includ... |
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udp(7) -- User Datagram Protocol for IPv4
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This is an implemention of the User Datagram Protocol described in RFC768. It implements a connectionless, unreliable datagram packet service. Packets may be reordered or duplicated before they arrive... |
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undocumented(7) -- No manpage for this program, utility or function.
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This program, utility or function does not have a useful manpage. Please do not report this as a bug, because this has already been reported as a bug; when a manpage becomes available it will be inclu... |
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unicode(7) -- the Universal Character Set
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The international standard ISO 10646 defines the Universal Character Set (UCS). UCS contains all characters of all other character set standards. It also guarantees round-trip compatibility, i.e., con... |
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unix(7) -- Sockets for local interprocess communication.
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The PF_UNIX (also known as PF_LOCAL) socket family is used to communicate between processes on the same machine efficiently. Unix sockets can be either anonymous (created by socketpair(2)) or associat... |
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uri(7) -- uniform resource identifier (URI), including a URL or URN
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A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a short string of characters identifying an abstract or physical resource (for example, a web page). A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a URI that identifies a ... |
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utf-8(7) -- an ASCII compatible multi-byte Unicode encoding
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The Unicode 3.0 character set occupies a 16-bit code space. The most obvious Unicode encoding (known as UCS-2) consists of a sequence of 16-bit words. Such strings can contain as parts of many 16-bit ... |
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x25(7) -- ITU-T X.25 / ISO-8208 protocol interface.
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X25 sockets provide an interface to the X.25 packet layer protocol. This allows applications to communicate over a public X.25 data network as standardised by International Telecommunication Union's ... |
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XF86Config(7) -- XFree86 X server configuration
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The Debian system supports simultaneous installation of XFree86 version 3 and version 4 servers. To accomodate this simultaneity, the names of several utilities and manual pages had to be changed from... |
