July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 3: Linux Commands
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Options
-c Cancel all jobs on the destination printer.
-r [reason]
Enter a reason for your action. If this is left blank, the message
is set to “Reason Unknown.”
dlpsh
dlpsh [-p port]
Desktop Link Protocol (DLP) shell. Connects to a PalmOS device
on the specified port to execute DLP commands. Within the shell,
adding the --help flag to any command displays additional help
about that command.
Commands
user
Display or set username, ID, PCID, and ViewerID.
ls List files. As in Bash and other shells, the -l option displays a
long-format list, and the -r option shows a short list. No other
flags are supported.
df Display the amount of free memory (RAM and ROM) on the
device. Accepts no flags or arguments.
time
Set the PalmOS device time to the current desktop time.
rm Delete a file. There is no undelete process.
quit
Exit the shell.
dmesg
dmesg [options]
System administration command. Display the system control
messages from the kernel ring buffer. This buffer stores all
messages since the last system boot, or the most recent ones if the
buffer has been filled.
Options
-c Clear buffer after printing messages.
-nlevel
Set the level of system message that will display on console.
-sbuffersize
Specify buffersize of kernel ring buffer. This is useful if you
have changed the kernel default. ...
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