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In computing, mkstemp is a POSIX function for creating a temporary file (a computer file which usually ceases to exist when the program, which opened the file, closes it or terminates). [1]
The man page for the sed utility, as seen in various Linux distributions. A man page (short for manual page) is a form of software documentation found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Topics covered include programs, system libraries, system calls, and sometimes local system details. The local host administrators can create and install ...
Michael Kerrisk is a technical author, programmer and, since 2004, maintainer of the Linux man-pages project, [1] succeeding Andries Brouwer. [2] He was born in 1961 in New Zealand and lives in Munich, Germany.
Notably, man is not available as an output format from the standard Texinfo tools. While Texinfo is used for writing the documentation of GNU software, which typically is used in Unix-like environments such as Linux, where man pages are the traditional format for documentation, the rationale for this is that man pages have a strict conventional format, used traditionally as quick reference ...
TLDR Pages (stylized as tldr-pages) is a free and open-source collaborative software documentation project that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages. It's a collection of community-maintained help pages that cover command-line utilities and other computer programs. A page can be invoked by issuing the tldr ...
pkg-config is software development tool that queries information about libraries from a local, file-based database for the purpose of building a codebase that depends on them. . It allows for sharing a codebase in a cross-platform way by using host-specific library information that is stored outside of yet referenced by the codeba
In particular, the POSIX specification and the Linux man page signal (7) require that all system functions directly or indirectly called from a signal function are async-signal safe. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The signal-safety(7) man page gives a list of such async-signal safe system functions (practically the system calls ), otherwise it is an undefined ...
debconf is a software utility for performing system-wide configuration tasks on Unix-like operating systems. It is developed for the Debian Linux distribution, and is closely integrated with Debian's package management system, dpkg.