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GNU Coreutils
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This manual documents version 5.2.1 of the GNU core utilities,
including the standard programs for text and file manipulation.
Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free
Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts,
and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included
in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
* Menu:
* Introduction:: Caveats, overview, and authors.
* Common options:: Common options.
* Output of entire files:: cat tac nl od
* Formatting file contents:: fmt pr fold
* Output of parts of files:: head tail split csplit
* Summarizing files:: wc sum cksum md5sum
* Operating on sorted files:: sort uniq comm ptx tsort
* Operating on fields within a line:: cut paste join
* Operating on characters:: tr expand unexpand
* Directory listing:: ls dir vdir d v dircolors
* Basic operations:: cp dd install mv rm shred
* Special file types:: ln mkdir rmdir mkfifo mknod
* Changing file attributes:: chgrp chmod chown touch
* Disk usage:: df du stat sync
* Printing text:: echo printf yes
* Conditions:: false true test expr
* Redirection:: tee
* File name manipulation:: dirname basename pathchk
* Working context:: pwd stty printenv tty
* User information:: id logname whoami groups users who
* System context:: date uname hostname
* Modi