cpupower: use man(1) when calling "cpupower help subcommand"
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1.TH CPUPOWER "1" "07/03/2011" "" "cpupower Manual"
2.SH NAME
3cpupower \- Shows and sets processor power related values
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5.ft B
498ca793 6.B cpupower [ \-c cpulist ] <command> [ARGS]
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8.B cpupower \-v|\-\-version
9
10.B cpupower \-h|\-\-help
11
12.SH DESCRIPTION
13\fBcpupower \fP is a collection of tools to examine and tune power saving
14related features of your processor.
15
498ca793 16The manpages of the commands (cpupower\-<command>(1)) provide detailed
7fe2f639 17descriptions of supported features. Run \fBcpupower help\fP to get an overview
498ca793 18of supported commands.
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20.SH Options
21.PP
22\-\-help, \-h
23.RS 4
498ca793 24Shows supported commands and general usage.
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25.RE
26.PP
27\-\-cpu cpulist, \-c cpulist
28.RS 4
29Only show or set values for specific cores.
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30This option is not supported by all commands, details can be found in the
31manpages of the commands.
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498ca793 33Some commands access all cores (typically the *\-set commands), some only
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34the first core (typically the *\-info commands) by default.
35
36The syntax for <cpulist> is based on how the kernel exports CPU bitmasks via
37sysfs files. Some examples:
38.RS 4
39.TP 16
40Input
41Equivalent to
42.TP
43all
44all cores
45.TP
460\-3
470,1,2,3
48.TP
490\-7:2
500,2,4,6
51.TP
521,3,5-7
531,3,5,6,7
54.TP
550\-3:2,8\-15:4
560,2,8,12
57.RE
58.RE
59.PP
60\-\-version, \-v
61.RS 4
62Print the package name and version number.
63
64.SH "SEE ALSO"
65cpupower-set(1), cpupower-info(1), cpupower-idle(1),
66cpupower-frequency-set(1), cpupower-frequency-info(1), cpupower-monitor(1),
67powertop(1)
68.PP
69.SH AUTHORS
70.nf
71\-\-perf\-bias parts written by Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
72Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
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