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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speed=num
Set the reading and writing speed, as an integer value. Useful
only for MMC-compliant drives. Defaults to maximum speed.
timeout=num
Set the default SCSI command timeout to num seconds.
Defaults to 40 seconds.
ts=num
Set the maximum transfer size for a single SCSI command to
num. Defaults to 256 KB.
-v, -verbose
Increment the general verbosity level by 1. Useful for
displaying progress.
-V, -Verbose
Increment the verbosity level for SCSI command transport by
1. Useful for debugging. Specifying -VV adds data-buffer
content to the output.
-version
Print version information and exit.
-w Switch to write mode. The default is to read from the device.
readelf
readelf option[...] elffiles
Display information about one or more ELF (Executable and
Linking Format) object files. At least one option is required to
specify the information to be displayed for each file. readelf does
not currently work on archive files or 64-bit ELF files.
Options
-a, --all
Display all. Equivalent to -A -d -h -I -l -r -s -S -V.
-A, --arch-specific
Display architecture-specific information, if any.
-d, --dynamic
Display the dynamic section.
-D, --use-dynamic
When displaying symbols, use the symbol table in the
dynamic section, not the symbols section.
-e, --headers
Display all headers. Equivalent to ...
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