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Package:Coreutils
Revision as of 14:21, May 31, 2015 by Duncan.britton (talk | contribs) (Began adding descriptions of some of the binaries. I do not know the functions of all of these -- if someone else could add some descriptions that would be great!)
Coreutils
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The core utils package provides many essential linux binaries:
Binary name | Binary function |
---|---|
/bin/basename | Remove leading directory components from a given directory listing. |
/bin/cat | Used to concatenate files and print them to stdout. |
/bin/chgrp | Used to change group ownership |
/bin/chmod | TODO |
/bin/chown | Change file ownership and group membership |
/bin/chroot | TODO |
/bin/cp | TODO |
/bin/cut | TODO |
/bin/date | TODO |
/bin/dd | TODO |
/bin/df | TODO |
/bin/dir | TODO |
/bin/dirname | TODO |
/bin/du | TODO |
/bin/echo | TODO |
/bin/env | TODO |
/bin/expr | TODO |
/bin/false | TODO |
/bin/head | TODO |
/bin/ln | Create hard and symbolic links between different files. |
/bin/ls | List files and directories on the filesystem |
/bin/mkdir | Create a new, empty directory |
/bin/mkfifo | TODO |
/bin/mknod | TODO |
/bin/mktemp | TODO |
/bin/mv | Move a file to a different location on the filesystem. |
/bin/pwd | Output the Present Working Directory. |
/bin/readlink | TODO |
/bin/rm | Remove a file, directory, etc. from the filesystem. |
/bin/rmdir | Remove a directory from the filesystem. |
/bin/seq | TODO |
/bin/sleep | TODO |
/bin/sort | TODO |
/bin/stty | TODO |
/bin/sync | TODO |
/bin/tail | TODO |
/bin/touch | Create an empty file on the filesystem. |
/bin/tr | TODO |
/bin/true | TODO |
/bin/tty | TODO |
/bin/uname | TODO |
/bin/vdir | TODO |
/bin/wc | TODO |
/bin/yes | TODO |