Example Commands for Ubuntu/Linux
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utmpdump
utmpdump is a simple program to dump UTMP and WTMP file...
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vacuumdb
vacuumdb is a utility for cleaning a PostgreSQL databas...
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vgchange
vgchange changes VG attributes, changes LV activation i...
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vgcreate
vgcreate creates a new VG on block devices. If the devi...
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vgexport
vgexport makes inactive VGs unknown to the system. In t...
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vgextend
vgextend adds one or more PVs to a VG. This increases t...
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vgimport
vgimport makes exported VGs known to the system again, ...
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vgreduce
vgreduce removes one or more unused PVs from a VG.USAGE...
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vgremove
vgremove removes one or more VGs. If LVs exist in the V...
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vgrename
vgrename renames a VG. All VGs visible to a system need...
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w.procps
w displays information about the users currently on the...
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xdriinfo
xdriinfo can be used to query configuration information...
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xfs_bmap
xfs_bmap prints the map of disk blocks used by files in...
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xfs_info
xfs_growfs expands an existing XFS filesystem (see xfs(...
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xfs_rtcp
xfs_rtcp copies a file to the realtime partition on an ...
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xlsatoms
Xlsatoms lists the interned atoms. By default, all atom...
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xlsfonts
xlsfonts lists the fonts that match the given pattern. ...
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xmessage
The xmessage program displays a window containing a mes...
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xwininfo
Xwininfo is a utility for displaying information about ...
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zerofree
zerofree finds the unallocated, blocks with non-zero va...
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zipcloak
zipcloak encrypts all unencrypted entries in the zipfil...
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zipsplit
zipsplit reads a zipfile and splits it into smaller zip...
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a2disconf
This manual page documents briefly the a2enconf and a2d...
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a2dissite
This manual page documents briefly the a2ensite and a2d...
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aa-status
aa-status will report various aspects of the current st...
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addr2line
addr2line translates addresses into file names and line...
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apt-cache
apt-cache performs a variety of operations on APT's pac...
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apt-cdrom
apt-cdrom is used to add a new CD-ROM to APT's list of ...
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asn1parse
The asn1parse command is a diagnostic utility that can ...
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badblocks
badblocks is used to search for bad blocks on a device ...
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btrfstune
btrfstune can be used to enable, disable, or set variou...
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captoinfo
captoinfo looks in each given text file for termcap des...
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chgpasswd
The chgpasswd command reads a list of group name and pa...
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clusterdb
clusterdb is a utility for reclustering tables in a Pos...
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crl2pkcs7
The crl2pkcs7 command takes an optional CRL and one or ...
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dircolors
Output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variab...
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dmidecode
dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some ...
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dpkg-name
This manual page documents the dpkg-name program which ...
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faked-tcp
If a fakeroot process wants to change the ownership of ...
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fallocate
fallocate is used to manipulate the allocated disk spac...
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fgconsole
If the active Virtual Terminal is /dev/ttyN, then print...
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fsck.ext2
e2fsck is used to check the ext2/ext3/ext4 family of fi...
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fsck.ext3
e2fsck is used to check the ext2/ext3/ext4 family of fi...
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fsck.ext4
e2fsck is used to check the ext2/ext3/ext4 family of fi...
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fsck.vfat
fsck.fat verifies the consistency of MS-DOS filesystems...
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gcov-tool
gcov-tool is an offline tool to process gcc's gcda prof...
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git-apply
Reads the supplied diff output (i.e. "a patch") and app...
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git-blame
Annotates each line in the given file with information ...
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git-clean
Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files t...
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git-fetch
Fetch branches and/or tags (collectively, "refs") from ...
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