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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 3: Linux Commands
This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition
Copyright © 2006 O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.
Options
- Return all options to defaults.
-signal
Send signal instead of SIGKILL.
-a Display information on all specified files, even if they are not
being accessed by any processes.
-i Request user confirmation to kill a process. Ignored if -k is not
also specified.
-k Send SIGKILL signal to each process.
-l List signal names.
-m Expect files to exist on a mounted filesystem; include all files
accessing that filesystem.
-n space
Set the namespace checked for usage. Acceptable values are
file for files, udp for local UPD ports, and tcp for local TCP
ports.
-s Silent.
-u User login name, in parentheses, also follows process ID.
-v Verbose.
-V Display version information.
g++
g++ [options] files
Invoke gcc with the options necessary to make it recognize C++.
g++ recognizes all the file extensions gcc does, in addition to C++
source files (.C, .cc,or.cxx files) and C++ preprocessed files (.ii
files). See also gcc.
gawk
gawk [options] 'script' [var=value...] [files]
gawk [options] -f scriptfile [var=value...] [files]
The GNU version of awk, a program that does pattern matching,
record processing, and other forms of text manipulation. For more
information, see Chapter 11.
gcc
gcc [options] files
GNU Compiler Collection. gcc, formerly known as the GNU C
Compiler, compiles multiple ...
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