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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2000-07-04 20:07:13 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2000-07-04 20:07:13 +0000
commit028fb625f53208a4d835f4a5ae034c3edc1ad051 (patch)
tree770e4c60d1c5fc2d465e6bbfd236049b37c95b24 /docs/busybox.pod
parent5331025f796d1defe90c8dda1fe1481de95850e5 (diff)
downloadbusybox-028fb625f53208a4d835f4a5ae034c3edc1ad051.tar.gz
More doc updates
-Erik
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+++ b/docs/busybox.pod
@@ -237,12 +237,6 @@ Example:
-------------------------------
-=item clear
-
-Clears the screen.
-
--------------------------------
-
=item chvt
Usage: chvt N
@@ -251,6 +245,12 @@ Changes the foreground virtual terminal to /dev/ttyN
-------------------------------
+=item clear
+
+Clears the screen.
+
+-------------------------------
+
=item cp
Usage: cp [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST
@@ -363,6 +363,14 @@ Example:
-------------------------------
+=item deallocvt
+
+Usage: deallocvt N
+
+Deallocates unused virtual terminal /dev/ttyN
+
+-------------------------------
+
=item df
Usage: df [filesystem ...]
@@ -580,14 +588,6 @@ Example:
-------------------------------
-=item deallocvt
-
-Usage: deallocvt N
-
-Deallocates unused virtual terminal /dev/ttyN
-
--------------------------------
-
=item fsck.minix
Usage: fsck.minix [B<-larvsmf>] /dev/name
@@ -1187,25 +1187,6 @@ Example:
-------------------------------
-=item nc
-
-Usage: nc [IP] [port]
-
-Netcat opens a pipe to IP:port
-
-Example:
-
- $ nc foobar.somedomain.com 25
- 220 foobar ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 15 Apr 2000 00:03:02 -0600
- help
- 214-Commands supported:
- 214- HELO EHLO MAIL RCPT DATA AUTH
- 214 NOOP QUIT RSET HELP
- quit
- 221 foobar closing connection
-
--------------------------------
-
=item more
Usage: more [file ...]
@@ -1277,6 +1258,25 @@ Example:
-------------------------------
+=item nc
+
+Usage: nc [IP] [port]
+
+Netcat opens a pipe to IP:port
+
+Example:
+
+ $ nc foobar.somedomain.com 25
+ 220 foobar ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 15 Apr 2000 00:03:02 -0600
+ help
+ 214-Commands supported:
+ 214- HELO EHLO MAIL RCPT DATA AUTH
+ 214 NOOP QUIT RSET HELP
+ quit
+ 221 foobar closing connection
+
+-------------------------------
+
=item nslookup
Usage: nslookup [HOST]
@@ -1476,23 +1476,6 @@ Example:
-------------------------------
-=item sh
-
-Usage: sh
-
-lash -- the BusyBox LAme SHell (command interpreter)
-
-This command does not yet have proper documentation.
-
-Use lash just as you would use any other shell. It properly handles pipes,
-redirects, job control, can be used as the shell for scripts (#!/bin/sh), and
-has a sufficient set of builtins to do what is needed. It does not (yet)
-support Bourne Shell syntax. If you need things like "if-then-else", "while",
-and such, use ash or bash. If you just need a very simple and extremely small
-shell, this will do the job.
-
--------------------------------
-
=item sfdisk
Usage: sfdisk [options] device ...
@@ -1536,6 +1519,23 @@ You can disable all consistency checking with:
-------------------------------
+=item sh
+
+Usage: sh
+
+lash -- the BusyBox LAme SHell (command interpreter)
+
+This command does not yet have proper documentation.
+
+Use lash just as you would use any other shell. It properly handles pipes,
+redirects, job control, can be used as the shell for scripts (#!/bin/sh), and
+has a sufficient set of builtins to do what is needed. It does not (yet)
+support Bourne Shell syntax. If you need things like "if-then-else", "while",
+and such, use ash or bash. If you just need a very simple and extremely small
+shell, this will do the job.
+
+-------------------------------
+
=item sleep
Usage: sleep N
@@ -1567,27 +1567,15 @@ Example:
-------------------------------
-=item sync
-
-Usage: sync
-
-Write all buffered filesystem blocks to disk.
-
--------------------------------
-
-=item syslogd
+=item swapoff
-Usage: syslogd [OPTION]...
+Usage: swapoff [OPTION] [device]
-Linux system and kernel (provides klogd) logging utility.
-Note that this version of syslogd/klogd ignores /etc/syslog.conf.
+Stop swapping virtual memory pages on the given device.
Options:
- -m NUM Interval between MARK lines (default=20min, 0=off)
- -n Run as a foreground process
- -K Do not start up the klogd process
- -O FILE Use an alternate log file (default=/var/log/messages)
+ -a Stop swapping on all swap devices
-------------------------------
@@ -1603,15 +1591,27 @@ Options:
-------------------------------
-=item swapoff
+=item sync
-Usage: swapoff [OPTION] [device]
+Usage: sync
-Stop swapping virtual memory pages on the given device.
+Write all buffered filesystem blocks to disk.
+
+-------------------------------
+
+=item syslogd
+
+Usage: syslogd [OPTION]...
+
+Linux system and kernel (provides klogd) logging utility.
+Note that this version of syslogd/klogd ignores /etc/syslog.conf.
Options:
- -a Stop swapping on all swap devices
+ -m NUM Interval between MARK lines (default=20min, 0=off)
+ -n Run as a foreground process
+ -K Do not start up the klogd process
+ -O FILE Use an alternate log file (default=/var/log/messages)
-------------------------------
@@ -1666,28 +1666,21 @@ Example:
-------------------------------
-=item test, [
+=item tee
-Usage: test EXPRESSION
-or [ EXPRESSION ]
+Usage: tee [OPTION]... [FILE]...
-Checks file types and compares values returning an exit
-code determined by the value of EXPRESSION.
+Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output.
+
+Options:
+
+ -a append to the given FILEs, do not overwrite
Example:
- $ test 1 -eq 2
- $ echo $?
- 1
- $ test 1 -eq 1
- $ echo $?
- 0
- $ [ -d /etc ]
- $ echo $?
- 0
- $ [ -d /junk ]
- $ echo $?
- 1
+ $ echo "Hello" | tee /tmp/foo
+ $ cat /tmp/foo
+ Hello
-------------------------------
@@ -1700,21 +1693,28 @@ computer over a network using the TELNET protocol.
-------------------------------
-=item tee
-
-Usage: tee [OPTION]... [FILE]...
-
-Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output.
+=item test, [
-Options:
+Usage: test EXPRESSION
+or [ EXPRESSION ]
- -a append to the given FILEs, do not overwrite
+Checks file types and compares values returning an exit
+code determined by the value of EXPRESSION.
Example:
- $ echo "Hello" | tee /tmp/foo
- $ cat /tmp/foo
- Hello
+ $ test 1 -eq 2
+ $ echo $?
+ 1
+ $ test 1 -eq 1
+ $ echo $?
+ 0
+ $ [ -d /etc ]
+ $ echo $?
+ 0
+ $ [ -d /junk ]
+ $ echo $?
+ 1
-------------------------------
@@ -1783,45 +1783,6 @@ Example:
-------------------------------
-=item uuencode
-
-Usage: uuencode [OPTION] [INFILE] REMOTEFILE
-
-Uuencode a file.
-
-Options:
-
- -m use base64 encoding as of RFC1521
-
-Example:
-
- $ uuencode busybox busybox
- begin 755 busybox
- M?T5,1@$!`0````````````(``P`!````L+@$"#0```!0N@,``````#0`(``&
- .....
- $ uudecode busybox busybox > busybox.uu
- $
-
--------------------------------
-
-=item uudecode
-
-Usage: uudecode [OPTION] [FILE]
-
-Uudecode a uuencoded file
-
-Options:
-
- -o FILE direct output to FILE
-
-Example:
-
- $ uudecode -o busybox busybox.uu
- $ ls -l busybox
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 ams ams 245264 Jun 7 21:35 busybox
-
--------------------------------
-
=item umount
Usage: umount [flags] filesystem|directory
@@ -1918,6 +1879,45 @@ Example:
-------------------------------
+=item uuencode
+
+Usage: uuencode [OPTION] [INFILE] REMOTEFILE
+
+Uuencode a file.
+
+Options:
+
+ -m use base64 encoding as of RFC1521
+
+Example:
+
+ $ uuencode busybox busybox
+ begin 755 busybox
+ M?T5,1@$!`0````````````(``P`!````L+@$"#0```!0N@,``````#0`(``&
+ .....
+ $ uudecode busybox busybox > busybox.uu
+ $
+
+-------------------------------
+
+=item uudecode
+
+Usage: uudecode [OPTION] [FILE]
+
+Uudecode a uuencoded file
+
+Options:
+
+ -o FILE direct output to FILE
+
+Example:
+
+ $ uudecode -o busybox busybox.uu
+ $ ls -l busybox
+ -rwxr-xr-x 1 ams ams 245264 Jun 7 21:35 busybox
+
+-------------------------------
+
=item wc
Usage: wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
@@ -2063,4 +2063,4 @@ Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>
=cut
-# $Id: busybox.pod,v 1.52 2000/06/26 12:14:30 andersen Exp $
+# $Id: busybox.pod,v 1.53 2000/07/04 20:07:13 andersen Exp $