accessdb will output the data contained within a man_db database in a human readable form. By default, it will dump the data from /var/cache/man/index., where is dependent on the da...
adduser and addgroup add users and groups to the system according to command line options and configuration information in /etc/adduser.conf. They are friendlier front ends to the useradd and groupadd...
APT is a management system for software packages. It is still under development; the snazzy front ends are not yet available. In the meantime, please see apt-get(8).
apt-cache performs a variety of operations on APT's package cache. apt- cache does not manipulate the state of the system but does provide operations to search and generate interesting output from th...
apt-cdrom is used to add a new CDROM to APTs list of available sources. apt-cdrom takes care of determining the structure of the disc as well as correcting for several possible mis-burns and verifying...
apt-config is an internal program used by various portions of the APT suite to provide consistent configurability. It accesses the main configuarion file /etc/apt/apt.conf in a manner that is easy to ...
apt-get is the command-line tool for handling packages, and may be considered the user's "back-end" to other tools using the APT library. Unless the -h, or --help option is given one of the command...
apt-setup is an interactive program that simplifies adding sources to apt's sources.list. It knows about all the major debian mirrors and can help you select one. It can even use apt-cdrom(8) to scan...
Arp manipulates the kernel's ARP cache in various ways. The primary options are clearing an address mapping entry and manually setting up one. For debugging purposes, the arp program also allows a co...
atrun runs jobs queued by at(1). It is a shell script containing invoking /usr/sbin/atd with the -s option, and is provided for backward compatibility with older installations.
badblocks is used to search for bad blocks on a device (usually a disk partition). device is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g /dev/hdc1). last-block is the last block to be checked; i...
base-config is the program that was run when you first rebooted into your newly installed debian system. It walks you through setting up the system and downloading additional software, and so forth. T...
catman is used to create an up to date set of pre-formatted manual pages known as cat pages. Cat pages are generally much faster to display than the original manual pages, but require extra storage sp...
