Linux Commands Examples
A great documentation place for Linux commands
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dpkg-reconfigure : reconfigure an already installed package
apt-config : APT Configuration Query program
passwd : change user password
cweave : translate CWEB to C and/or TeX
python2.7 : an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
dh_installdeb : install files into the DEBIAN directory
update-java-alternatives : update alternatives for jre/sdk installations
airtun-ng : a virtual tunnel interface creator for aircrack-ng
update-grub : stub for grub-mkconfig
pk2bm : create a bitmap from a TeX pkfont
dvdrip : GUI for copying DVDs
pdb3.3 : the Python debugger
bzip2 : recover recovers data from damaged bzip2 files
nohup : run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty
dpkg-trigger : a package trigger utility
avconv : avconv video converter
dh_auto_test : automatically runs a package’s test suites
loadunimap : load the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table
dpkg-shlibdeps : generate shared library substvar dependencies
dh_auto_build : automatically builds a package
dpkg-architecture : set and determine the architecture for package building
dh_installcron : install cron scripts into etc/cron.*
iconv : Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another
gst-launch-1.0 : build and run a GStreamer pipeline
MAKEDEV : create devices
aptd : package managing daemon proving a D-Bus interface
lame : create mp3 audio files
start-stop-daemon : start and stop system daemon programs
pnmenlarge : read a portable anymap and enlarge it N times
dpkg-deb : Debian package archive (.deb) manipulation tool
dpkg-maintscript-helper : works around known dpkg limitations in maintainer scripts
sha1sum : compute and check SHA1 message digest
make : GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs