GNU Core Utilities
The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing reimplementations for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, which are used on Unix-like operating systems.
Developer(s) | GNU Project |
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Stable release | 8.32 (March 5, 2020 ) [±][1] |
Repository | |
Written in | C, shell script[2] |
Operating system | Unix-like |
Type | Miscellaneous utilities |
License | GPLv3 |
Website | www |
In September 2002, the GNU coreutils were created by merging the earlier packages textutils, shellutils, and fileutils, along with some other miscellaneous utilities.[3] In July 2007, the license of the GNU coreutils was updated from GPLv2 to GPLv3.[4]
The GNU core utilities support long options as parameters to the commands, as well as the relaxed convention allowing options even after the regular arguments (unless the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set). Note that this environment variable enables a different functionality in BSD.
See the List of GNU Core Utilities commands for a brief description of included commands.
Alternative implementation packages are available in the FOSS ecosystem, with a slightly different scope and focus, or license. For example, GPLv2-licensed BusyBox and BSD-licensed Toybox are available for use in embedded devices.
See also
- GNU Binutils
- List of GNU Core Utilities commands
- List of Unix commands
- Toybox, a 0BSD licensed, all-in-one Linux command line utility used in Android.
- util-linux, a set of approximately 100 basic Linux system utilities not included in GNU Core Utilities, such as mount, fdisk, more, and kill.
References
- Brady, Pádraig (2020-03-05). "[coreutils-announce] coreutils-8.32 released [stable]". coreutils-announce (Mailing list). Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- The GNU Core Utilities Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page
- Meyering, Jim (2003-01-13). "README-package-renamed-to-coreutils". Retrieved 2018-08-15.
- Meyering, Jim (2007-07-23). "COPYING: Update to Version 3". Retrieved 2018-08-15.
External links
- Official website
- The Heirloom Toolchest - An alternative set of utilities