10.46.3. Contents of Util-linux
Short Descriptions
Informs the kernel of a new partition |
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Opens a tty port, prompts for a login name, and then invokes the login program |
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Discards sectors on a device |
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A command line utility to locate and print block device attributes |
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Allows users to call block device ioctls from the command line |
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Displays a simple calendar |
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Manipulates the partition table of the given device |
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Utility to configure CPUs |
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Manipulates real-time attributes of a process |
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Filters out reverse line feeds |
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Filters nroff output for terminals that lack some capabilities, such as overstriking and half-lines |
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Filters out the given columns |
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Formats a given file into multiple columns |
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Sets the function of the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination to a hard or a soft reset |
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Tunes the parameters of the serial line drivers for Cyclades cards |
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Asks the kernel to remove a partition |
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Dumps the kernel boot messages |
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Eject removable media |
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Preallocates space to a file |
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Low-level formats a floppy disk |
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Manipulates the partition table of the given device |
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Finds a file system by label or Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) |
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Lists mounted filesystems or searches for a filesystem |
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Acquires a file lock and then executes a command with the lock held |
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Is used to check, and optionally repair, file systems |
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Performs a consistency check on the Cramfs file system on the given device |
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Performs a consistency check on the Minix file system on the given device |
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Suspends and resumes access to a filesystem |
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Discards unused blocks on a mounted filesystem |
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Parses options in the given command line |
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Dumps the given file in hexadecimal or in another given format |
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Reads or sets the system's hardware clock, also called the Real-Time Clock (RTC) or Basic Input-Output System (BIOS) clock |
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Gives and sets program I/O scheduling class and priority |
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Creates various IPC resources |
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Removes the given Inter-Process Communication (IPC) resource |
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Provides IPC status information |
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Reports the size of an iso9660 file system |
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Send a signal to a process |
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Shows which users last logged in (and out), searching
back through the |
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Shows the failed login attempts, as logged in
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Attaches a line discipline to a serial line |
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Enters the given message into the system log |
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Displays lines that begin with the given string |
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Sets up and controls loop devices |
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Prints information about block devices |
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Prints CPU architecture information |
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Lists local system locks |
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Generates magic cookies (128-bit random hexadecimal numbers) for xauth |
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Controls whether other users can send messages to the current user's terminal |
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Builds a file system on a device (usually a hard disk partition) |
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Creates a Santa Cruz Operations (SCO) bfs file system |
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Creates a cramfs file system |
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Creates a Minix file system |
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Initializes the given device or file to be used as a swap area |
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A filter for paging through text one screen at a time |
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Attaches the file system on the given device to a specified directory in the file-system tree |
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Tells you whether or not a directory is a mount point. |
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Shows the symbolic links in the given pathnames |
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Displays a message that an account is not available. Designed to be used as the default shell for accounts that have been disabled |
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Runs a program with namespaces of other processes |
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Tells the kernel about the presence and numbering of on-disk partitions |
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Displays a text file one screen full at a time |
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Makes the given file system the new root file system of the current process |
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Gets and sets a process' resource limits |
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Binds a Linux raw character device to a block device |
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Reads kernel profiling information |
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Renames the given files, replacing a given string with another |
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Alters the priority of running processes |
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Asks the Linux kernel to resize a partition |
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Reverses the lines of a given file |
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Enters a system sleep state until a specified wakeup time |
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Makes a typescript of a terminal session |
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Plays back typescripts created by script |
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Changes reported architecture in new program environment and sets personality flags |
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Runs the given program in a new session |
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Sets terminal attributes |
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A disk partition table manipulator |
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Allows root to log in; it is normally invoked by init when the system goes into single user mode |
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Prints or changes the label or UUID of a swap area |
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Disables devices and files for paging and swapping |
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Enables devices and files for paging and swapping and lists the devices and files currently in use |
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Switches to another filesystem as the root of the mount tree |
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Tracks the growth of a log file. Displays the last 10 lines of a log file, then continues displaying any new entries in the log file as they are created |
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Retrieves or sets a process's CPU affinity |
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A filter for translating underscores into escape sequences indicating underlining for the terminal in use |
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Disconnects a file system from the system's file tree |
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Runs a program with some namespaces unshared from parent |
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Displays the content of the given login file in a more user-friendly format |
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A daemon used by the UUID library to generate time-based UUIDs in a secure and guranteed-unique fashion. |
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Creates new UUIDs. Each new UUID can reasonably be considered unique among all UUIDs created, on the local system and on other systems, in the past and in the future |
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Writes a message to all logged-in users |
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Show hardware watchdog status |
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Reports the location of the binary, source, and man page for the given command |
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Wipes a filesystem signature from a device |
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Sends a message to the given user if that user has not disabled receipt of such messages |
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Contains routines for device identification and token extraction |
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Contains routines for parsing the |
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Contains routines for generating unique identifiers for objects that may be accessible beyond the local system |