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Command Description Package

pagsh

execute a command without authentication

krbafs-utils

pal2rgb

convert a palette color TIFF image to a full color image

libtiff

papd

AppleTalk print server daemon

netatalk

papstatus

client interface to remote printers using Printer Access Protocol

netatalk

papstatus

get the status of an AppleTalk-connected printer

netatalk

pap

client interface to remote printers using Printer Access Protocol

netatalk

partprobe

inform the OS of partition table changes

parted

passmass

change password on multiple machines

expect

passwd

compute password hashes

passwd

passwd

update a user's authentication tokens(s)

passwd

paste

merge lines of files

coreutils

patch

apply a diff file to an original

patch

patgen

generate patterns for TeX hyphenation

tetex

pathchk

check whether file names are valid or portable

coreutils

pawd

print automounter working directory

am-utils

pax

read and write file archives and copy directory hierarchies

pax

pbm2g3

convert portable bitmaps (PBM) into G3 fax files

mgetty-sendfax

pbm2ppa

convert portable bitmap (PBM) to HP's Printing Performance Architecture (PPA) file format

pnm2ppa

pcbitctl

PCBIT-D firmware loader

isdn4k-utils

pcregrep

a grep with Perl-compatible regular expressions

pcre

pcretest

a program for testing Perl-compatible regular expressions

pcre

pdbedit

manage the SAM database (Database of Samba Users)

samba

pdf2dsc

generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document

ghostscript

pdf2ps

Ghostscript PDF to PostScript translator

ghostscript

pdfetex

PDF output from e-TeX

tetex

pdffonts

Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 3.00)

xpdf

pdfimages

Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor (version 3.00)

xpdf

pdfinfo

Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor (version 3.00)

xpdf

pdfinitex

PDF output from TeX

tetex

pdflatex

structured text formatting and typesetting

tetex-latex

pdfopt

Ghostscript PDF Optimizer

ghostscript

pdftex

PDF output from TeX

tetex

pdftoppm

Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable Pixmap (PPM) converter (version 3.00)

xpdf

pdftops

Portable Document Format (PDF) to PostScript converter (version 3.00)

xpdf

pdftotext

Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.00)

xpdf

pdfvirtex

PDF output from TeX

tetex

pdiff

produce a pretty comparison between files

a2ps

pdldoc

shell interface to PDL documentation

perl-PDL

perl5004delta

what's new for perl5.004

perl

perl5005delta

what's new for perl5.005

perl

perl561delta

what's new for perl v5.6.x

perl

perl56delta

what's new for perl v5.6.0

perl

perl570delta

what's new for perl v5.7.0

perl

perl571delta

what's new for perl v5.7.1

perl

perl572delta

what's new for perl v5.7.2

perl

perl573delta

what's new for perl v5.7.3

perl

perl581delta

what is new for perl v5.8.1

perl

perl582delta

what is new for perl v5.8.2

perl

perl58delta

what is new for perl v5.8.0

perl

perlamiga

Perl under Amiga OS

perl

perlapi

autogenerated documentation for the perl public API

perl

perlapio

perl's IO abstraction interface

perl

perlartistic

the Perl Artistic License

perl

perlbook

Perl book information

perl

perlboot

Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial

perl

perlbot

Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)

perl

perlbug

how to submit bug reports on Perl

perl

perlcall

Perl calling conventions from C

perl

perlcc

generate executables from Perl programs

perl

perlce

Perl for WinCE

perl

perlcheat

Perl 5 Cheat Sheet

perl

perlclib

Internal replacements for standard C library functions

perl

perlcompile

Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator

perl

perldata

Perl data types

perl

perldbmfilter

Perl DBM Filters

perl

perldebguts

Guts of Perl debugging

perl

perldebtut

Perl debugging tutorial

perl

perldebug

Perl debugging

perl

perldelta

what is new for perl v5.8.3

perl

perl

Practical Extraction and Report Language

perl

perldgux

Perl under DG/UX

perl

perldiag

various Perl diagnostics

perl

perldl

Simple shell for PDL

perl-PDL

perldoc

Look up Perl documentation in Pod format

perl

perldos

Perl under DOS, W31, W95

perl

perldsc

Perl Data Structures Cookbook

perl

perlembed

how to embed perl in your C program

perl

perlfaq1

General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2004/09/15 22:51:50 $)

perl

perlfaq2

Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2004/09/15 22:51:50 $)

perl

perlfaq3

Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2004/09/15 22:51:50 $)

perl

perlfaq4

Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2004/09/15 22:51:50 $)

perl

perlfaq5

Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2004/09/15 22:51:50 $)

perl

perlfaq6

Regular Expressions ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2004/09/15 22:51:50 $)

perl

perlfaq7

General Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2004/09/15 22:51:50 $)

perl

perlfaq8

System Interaction ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2004/09/15 22:51:50 $)

perl

perlfaq9

Networking ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2004/09/15 22:51:50 $)

perl

perlfaq

frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2004/09/15 22:51:50 $)

perl

perlfilter

Source Filters

perl

perlfork

Perl's fork() emulation

perl

perlform

Perl formats

perl

perlfunc

Perl builtin functions

perl

perlgpl

the GNU General Public License, version 2

perl

perlguts

Introduction to the Perl API

perl

perlintern

autogenerated documentation of purely internal Perl functions

perl

perliol

C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers

perl

perlipc

Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)

perl

perlivp

Perl Installation Verification Procedure

perl

perllexwarn

Perl Lexical Warnings

perl

perllocale

Perl locale handling (internationalization and localization)

perl

perllol

Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl

perl

perlmod

Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)

perl

perlmodinstall

Installing CPAN Modules

perl

perlmodlib

constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones

perl

perlmodstyle

Perl module style guide

perl

perlnetware

Perl for NetWare

perl

perlnewmod

preparing a new module for distribution

perl

perlnumber

semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl

perl

perlobj

Perl objects

perl

perlop

Perl operators and precedence

perl

perlopentut

tutorial on opening things in Perl

perl

perlos2

Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT

perl

perlpacktut

tutorial on pack and unpack

perl

perlplan9

Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl

perl

perlpod

the Plain Old Documentation format

perl

perlpodspec

Plain Old Documentation: format specification and notes

perl

perlport

Writing portable Perl

perl

perlre

Perl regular expressions

perl

perlref

Perl references and nested data structures

perl

perlreftut

Mark's very short tutorial about references

perl

perlrequick

Perl regular expressions quick start

perl

perlreref

Perl Regular Expressions Reference

perl

perlretut

Perl regular expressions tutorial

perl

perlrun

how to execute the Perl interpreter

perl

perlsec

Perl security

perl

perlstyle

Perl style guide

perl

perlsub

Perl subroutines

perl

perlsyn

Perl syntax

perl

perltie

how to hide an object class in a simple variable

perl

perltoc

perl documentation table of contents

perl

perltodo

Perl TO-DO List

perl

perltooc

Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl

perl

perltoot

Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl

perl

perltrap

Perl traps for the unwary

perl

perlunicode

Unicode support in Perl

perl

perluniintro

Perl Unicode introduction

perl

perlutil

utilities packaged with the Perl distribution

perl

perluts

Perl under UTS

perl

perlvar

Perl predefined variables

perl

perlvms

VMS-specific documentation for Perl

perl

perlwin32

Perl under Windows

perl

perlxs

XS language reference manual

perl

perror

describes a system or MySQL error code

mysql

pf2afm

Make an AFM file from Postscript (PFB/PFA/PFM) font files using ghostscript

ghostscript

pfb2pfa

convert a type1 pfb file (binary MSDOS) into a pfa (ASCII)

tetex

pfbtopfa

Convert Postscript .pfb fonts to .pfa format using ghostscript

ghostscript

pfbtops

translate a PostScript font in .pfb format to ASCII

groff

pgpverify

cryptographically verify Usenet control messages

inn

pgrep

look up or signal processes based on name and other attributes

procps

pgtclsh

PostgreSQL Tcl shell client

postgresql-tcl

pic2graph

convert a PIC diagram into a cropped image

groff

pic2tpic

Convert pic files to tpic format

transfig

pic

compile pictures for troff or TeX

groff

pickup

Postfix local mail pickup

postfix

pinfo

curses based lynx-style info browser

pinfo

ping

send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts

iputils

pinky

lightweight finger

coreutils

pipe

Postfix delivery to external command

postfix

pk2bm

create a bitmap from a TeX pkfont

tetex

pkcs12

PKCS#12 file utility

openssl

pkcs7

PKCS#7 utility

openssl

pkcs8

PKCS#8 format private key conversion tool

openssl

pkill

look up or signal processes based on name and other attributes

procps

pktogf

convert packed font files to generic font files

tetex

pktype

verify and translate a packed font bitmap file to plain text

tetex

pl2pm

Rough tool to translate Perl4 .pl files to Perl5 .pm modules

perl

play

play any sound file to audio device .P rec

sox

playdv

display digital video streams on screen

libdv-tools

plipconfig

fine tune PLIP device parameters

net-tools

pltotf

convert property list files to TeX font metric (tfm) format

tetex

pmake

maintain program dependencies

pmake

pmap

report memory map of a process

procps

pnm2ppa

convert portable anymap (PNM) images to HP's PPA printer format

pnm2ppa

pod2html

convert .pod files to .html files

perl

pod2latex

convert pod documentation to latex format

perl

pod2man

Convert POD data to formatted *roff input

perl

pod2text

Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text

perl

pod2usage

print usage messages from embedded pod docs in files

perl

podchecker

check the syntax of POD format documentation files

perl

podselect

print selected sections of pod documentation on standard output

perl

pooltype

display a WEB pool file

tetex

pop3d

POP3 server process

cyrus-imapd

pop3test

interactive POP3 test program

cyrus-imapd-utils

popd

bash built-in commands, see bash(1)

bash

portmap

DARPA port to RPC program number mapper

portmap

postalias

Postfix alias database maintenance

postfix

postcat

show Postfix queue file contents

postfix

postconf

Postfix configuration utility

postfix

postdrop

Postfix mail posting utility

postfix

postfix

Postfix control program

postfix

postgres

run a PostgreSQL server in single-user mode

postgresql-server

postkick

kick a Postfix service

postfix

postlock

lock mail folder and execute command

postfix

postlog

Postfix-compatible logging utility

postfix

postmap

Postfix lookup table management

postfix

postmaster

PostgreSQL multiuser database server

postgresql-server

postqueue

Postfix queue control

postfix

postsuper

Postfix superintendent

postfix

powercom

UPS driver for Powercom/Trust/Advice UPS equipment

nut

poweroff

stop the system

SysVinit

ppm2tiff

create a TIFF file from a PPM image file

libtiff

pppd

Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon

ppp

pppdump

convert PPP record file to readable format

ppp

pppoe

user-space PPPoE client

rp-pppoe

pppstats

print PPP statistics

ppp

pptemplate

script to generate Makefile.PL and PP file skeleton

perl-PDL

pqlist

List available NetWare print queues

ncpfs

pqstat

List jobs in NetWare print queue

ncpfs

praliases

display system mail aliases

sendmail

prelink

prelink ELF shared libraries and binaries to speed up startup time

prelink

printafm

Print the metrics from a Postscript font in AFM format using ghostscript

ghostscript

printenv

print all or part of environment

coreutils

printf

bash built-in commands, see bash(1)

coreutils

printf

format and print data

coreutils

procinfo

display system status gathered from /proc

procinfo

procmail

autonomous mail processor

procmail

profiles

A utility to report and change SIDs in registry files

samba-common

proxymap

Postfix lookup table proxy server

postfix

pr

convert text files for printing

coreutils

prunehistory

remove file names from Usenet history file

inn

ps2ascii

Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to ASCII

ghostscript

ps2epsi

generate conforming Encapsulated PostScript

ghostscript

ps2frag

obsolete shell script for the PSfrag system

tetex

ps2pdf12

Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible) using ghostscript

ghostscript

ps2pdf13

Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible) using ghostscript

ghostscript

ps2pdf

Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript

ghostscript

ps2pdfwr

Convert PostScript to PDF without specifying CompatibilityLevel, using ghostscript

ghostscript

ps2pk

creates a TeX pkfont from a type1 PostScript font

tetex

ps2ps

Ghostscript PostScript distiller

ghostscript

ps

report process status

procps

psbook

rearrange pages in PostScript file into signatures

psutils

psed

a stream editor

perl

pserver

NetWare print server

ncpfs

psfaddtable

add a Unicode character table to a console font

kbd

psfgettable

extract the embedded Unicode character table from a console font

kbd

psfstriptable

remove the embedded Unicode character table from a console font

kbd

psf

PostScript filter

netatalk

psfxtable

handle Unicode character tables for console fonts

kbd

pslatex

utility to typeset LaTeX files using PostScript fonts

tetex-latex

psmandup

insert page device request in PostScript files

a2ps

psmandup

print duplex on non duplex printers

a2ps

psmerge

filter to merge several PostScript files into one

psutils

psnup

multiple pages per sheet

psutils

psorder

PostScript pageorder filter

netatalk

psql

PostgreSQL interactive terminal

postgresql

psresize

multiple pages per sheet

psutils

psselect

select pages from a PostScript file

psutils

pstack

print a stack trace of running processes

pstack

pstops

shuffle pages in a PostScript file

psutils

pstree

display a tree of processes

psmisc

pstruct

Dump C structures as generated from cc -g -S stabs

perl

ptx

produce a permuted index of file contents

coreutils

pullnews

a perl script for pulling news from one news machine and feeding it to another

inn

pushd

bash built-in commands, see bash(1)

bash

pvchange

change attributes of a physical volume

lvm2

pvcreate

initialize a disk or partition for use by LVM

lvm2

pvdisplay

display attributes of a physical volume

lvm2

pvf

utilities to convert various sound formats

mgetty-voice

pvmd3

PVM daemon

pvm

pvmd

PVM daemon

pvm

PVM

Parallel Virtual Machine System Version 3

pvm

pvm

PVM version 3 console

pvm

pvmove

move physical extents

lvm2

pvremove

remove a physical volume

lvm2

pvscan

scan all disks for physical volumes

lvm2

pvs

report information about physical volumes

lvm2

pwck

verify integrity of password files

shadow-utils

pwconv

convert to and from shadow passwords and groups

shadow-utils

pwd

bash built-in commands, see bash(1)

coreutils

pwd

print name of current/working directory

coreutils

pwunconv

convert to and from shadow passwords and groups

shadow-utils

pwupdate

updates passwd and shadow NIS map

ypserv

pxeboot

Network Booting Operating Systems Configuration Utility

system-config-netboot

pxeos

PXEBoot Operating System description Configuration Utility

system-config-netboot

python

an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

python


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