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Special Forums Cybersecurity Use command 2 incase command 1 fails Post 303029141 by MadeInGermany on Tuesday 22nd of January 2019 09:58:05 AM
Old 01-22-2019
I do not agree regarding the PATH setting.
A given PATH with /usr/... or /bin/... components can be trusted more than a PATH that might come from the remote user's .bashrc.
For the same reason a script should set PATH at the beginning.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

installmgr.1

INSTALLMGR.1(1) 					      Sword Module Utilities						   INSTALLMGR.1(1)

NAME

       installmgr - install, list, update and remove SWORD modules

SYNOPSIS

       installmgr -init

       installmgr -l

       installmgr -u [ModuleName]

       installmgr -s

       installmgr [-r | -rl | -rd] [RemoteSrcName]

       installmgr -ri [RemoteSrcName] [ModuleName]

       installmgr -ll [PATH]

       installmgr -li [PATH] [ModuleName]

DESCRIPTION

       A command line utility to manipulate SWORD modules. It can be used to install, remove, list and update SWORD modules, from local and
       network locations.

       Please note modules will be installed into /usr/share/sword without using APT. If you use this utility you will not be able to uninstall
       these modules using apt-get, aptitude, synaptic and similar tools.

OPTIONS

       -init
	   Creates basic user configuration file. This will overwrite existing one.

       -l  Lists currently installed SWORD modules.

       -u [ModuleName]
	   Uninstalls module.

       -s  Lists available remote sources

       [-r | -rl | -rd] [RemoteSrcName]
	   These are used to manipulate remote sources.

	   -r  Refreshes remote source.

	   -rl Lists available modules from the remote source.

	   -rd Lists new/updated modules from the remote source.

       -ri [RemoteSrcName] [ModuleName]
	   Install module from remote source.

       -ll [PATH]
	   List available modules at a specified local path.

       -li [PATH] [ModuleName]
	   Install module from local path.

Authors
       This manual page was written by Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov@gmail.com> for Debian project but may be used by others.

SEE ALSO

SWORD 1.6.2+dfsg						    2012-02-22							   INSTALLMGR.1(1)
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