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coreutils - Collection of basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities

Combination of file (filutils), shell (shellutils) and text (textutils) packages into a single release.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
Source tarballftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coreutils/
Version 5.2.1 (stable) released on 2004-03-15
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User reference manual available in HTML format from http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html; User FAQ available in HTML format from http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/
Support contacts

Announce List<coreutils-announce@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce
Help List<help-gnu-utils@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-utils/
Help Newsgnu.utils.help
Bug List<bug-coreutils@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
Bug Databasehttp://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=coreutils

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
  • See the AUTHORS file in the distribution for a complete list
Contributors
  • See the THANKS file in the distribution for a complete list

Related information

Source repository-d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/coreutils http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/coreutils/
Interfacescommand line, terminal
Programsbasename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir di
Source languagesC
Related programsfileutils, shellutils, Textutils

Entry information

License verified byAaron Hawley <ashawley@gnu.uvm.edu> on 2003-04-08
Entry compiled byAaron Hawley <ashawley@gnu.uvm.edu>

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