Linux in a Nutshell
Index[SYMBOL] [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z] p command (sed) P command (sed) package management, rpm command package managers 2nd 3rd apt command Debian RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) synaptic up2date yum (Yellow Dog updater modified) pager command (GRUB) paginated text files paging commands less more zless zmore paging, turning off/on for files PalmOS devices connecting to executing DLP commands paragraphs, Emacs commands for partitions, disk creating MS-DOS partition fdisk command GRUB partnew command GRUB unhide command GRUP parttype command treated as devices passwd command passwd file passwords chpasswd command converting unshadowed to shadowed expiration information (chage command) group, changing group, shadowed file for GRUB information displayed by finger, changing removing errors from passwd and shadow files yppasswd command yppasswdd command paste command patch command pathchk command pathname, printing with dirname pathnames following to terminal point listing for files executed if command had been run paths basename command to manual pages tracepath command pattern matching searching with (examples) transposing words in sed patterns awk shell command execution patterns, extglob option in bash and ksh pause command (GRUB) PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) devices, listing PCMCIA sockets card daemon controlling with cardctl command PDF (Portable Document Format) language, GhostScript interpreter pending jobs, listing Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) devices, listing perl command permissions, changing for files permuted indexes pgawk program pidof command ping command 2nd pinky command pmap command PNM (Portable aNyMap) format point (Emacs cursor) popd command (bash) 2nd portmap command portmap daemon (RPC) 2nd positional specifier (gawk) POSIX distinction between "special" built-in commands and nonspecial pattern-matching metacharacters PostScript language, GhostScript interpreter poweroff command PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) 2nd pppd command 2nd pr command praliases command precision format specifier (printf and sprintf) preprocessor, C language preserve command (ex) previous command (ex) print character class print command awk ex ksh printenv command printf command awk format specifiers bash and ksh93 printing commands 2nd banner checking print spool queue (lpq) cupsd disable enable line printer parameters, controlling (tunelp) lpadmin lpinfo lpmove print queue status, showing (lpstat) reject removing jobs from the queue (lprm) sending files to be printed (lpr) tac tail tailf procedures, awk process IDs, getting with fuser process management commands processes CPU usage displaying memory map of killing killing by command name pending jobs, listing reporting on active resetting priority with snice running, controlling scheduling priority scheduling properties, changing sending signal to or resetting priority with skill profile data for object file profile files 2nd profiling (gawk) program addresses, translation with addr2line program maintenance commands programmable completion (bash) programming commands programming languages gcc compiler source files, examining with ctags programs, listing required libraries for (ldd) prompt command (ftp) prompt strings, special (bash and ksh) propdel command (svn) propedit command (svn) properties, Subversion files propget command (svn) propget command (svnlook) proplist command (svn) proplist command (svnlook) propset command (svn) provides command (yum) proxy command (ftp) ps command format and sort specifiers PS1-PS4 variables pserver command (CVS) pseudonyms (links) for files ptx command punct character class pushd command (bash) 2nd put command (ex) put command, ftp putting commands (sed) pwck command pwconv command pwd command bash and ksh ftp python command |