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-D Change both the current and the default settings. Useful for

always having NumLock set, for example.

-F Only change the flags (and their settings may be reflected by

the keyboard LEDs). The default behavior.

-L Change the LEDs but not the flags, so the leds no longer

reflect the virtual terminal (VT) flags. Run setleds -L with no

other options to restore the default behavior.

-v Report the settings before and after the change.

setmetamode

setmetamode [options]

Display or set Meta key handling for the current virtual terminal.

With no option, print the current Meta key mode. Otherwise, set

the mode and display the setting before and after the change.

Options

esc, prefix, escprefix

Set the Meta key to send an escape sequence.

meta, bit, metabit

Set the Meta key to set the high-order bit of the character.

setquota

setquota [options] [name] [limits] filesystems

System administration command. Set quotas from the command

line. Provide limits in the format soft-block-limit hard-block-limit

soft-inode-limit hard-inode-limit. To disable a quota, set it to 0. See

also edquota, a vi editor interface for editing and setting quotas.

Options

-a Apply settings to all filesystems listed in /etc/mtab that support

quotas.

-b Read new settings from standard input. Provide as a list, ...