Coreutils

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The GNU Coreutils package contains some of the most useful command-line utilities that are familiar in all UNIX-like systems. They are categorized by their creators thus:

• Output of entire files: cat tac nl od base32 base64

• Formatting file contents: fmt pr fold

• Output of parts of files: head tail split csplit

• Summarizing files: wc sum cksum md5sum sha1sum sha2

• Operating on sorted files: sort shuf uniq comm ptx tsort

• Operating on fields: cut paste join

• Operating on characters: tr expand unexpand

• Directory listing: ls dir vdir dircolors

• Basic operations: cp dd install mv rm shred

• Special file types: mkdir rmdir unlink mkfifo mknod ln link readlink

• Changing file attributes: chgrp chmod chown touch

• Disk usage: df du stat sync truncate

• Printing text: echo printf yes

• Conditions: false true test expr

• Redirection: tee

• File name manipulation: dirname basename pathchk mktemp realpath

• Working context: pwd stty printenv tty

• User information: id logname whoami groups users who

• System context: date arch nproc uname hostname hostid uptime

• SELinux context: chcon runcon

• Modified command invocation: chroot env nice nohup stdbuf timeout

• Process control: kill

• Delaying: sleep

• Numeric operations: factor numfmt seq

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Most (all?) Linux distributions incorporate these programs from the GNU Coreutils: and use its man pages.

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