[2b138d6] | 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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[2b138d6] | 3 | <sect2><title>Descriptions</title>
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[6370fa6] | 4 |
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[2b138d6] | 5 | <para>Last checked against version &fileutils-contversion;.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 6 |
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[ab28d5f] | 7 | <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
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[6370fa6] | 8 |
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[bdc08c1] | 9 | <sect4><title>chgrp</title>
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[b822811] | 10 | <para>chgrp changes the group ownership of each given file to the named group,
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[bdc08c1] | 11 | which can be either a group name or a numeric group ID.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 12 |
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[bdc08c1] | 13 | <sect4><title>chmod</title>
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[b822811] | 14 | <para>chmod changes the permissions of each given file according to mode, which
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[2c094d6] | 15 | can be either a symbolic representation of changes to make or an octal
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[bdc08c1] | 16 | number representing the bit pattern for the new permissions.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 17 |
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[bdc08c1] | 18 | <sect4><title>chown</title>
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[53ad30a] | 19 | <para>chown changes the user and/or group ownership of each
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[bdc08c1] | 20 | given file.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 21 |
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[bdc08c1] | 22 | <sect4><title>cp</title>
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| 23 | <para>cp copies files from one place to another.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 24 |
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[bdc08c1] | 25 | <sect4><title>dd</title>
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[b822811] | 26 | <para>dd copies a file (from the standard input to the standard output, by
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| 27 | default) with a user-selectable blocksize, while optionally performing
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[bdc08c1] | 28 | conversions on it.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 29 |
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[bdc08c1] | 30 | <sect4><title>df</title>
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[b822811] | 31 | <para>df displays the amount of disk space available on the filesystem
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[6370fa6] | 32 | containing each file name argument. If no file name is given, the space
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[bdc08c1] | 33 | available on all currently mounted filesystems is shown.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 34 |
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[bdc08c1] | 35 | <sect4><title>dir, ls and vdir</title>
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[b822811] | 36 | <para>dir and vdir are versions of ls with different default output formats.
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[6370fa6] | 37 | These programs list each given file or directory name. Directory contents
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[2c094d6] | 38 | are sorted alphabetically. For ls, files are, by default, listed in columns
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| 39 | sorted vertically if the standard output is a terminal; otherwise they
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| 40 | are listed one per line. For dir, files are, by default, listed in columns
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| 41 | sorted vertically. For vdir, files are, by default, listed in
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[bdc08c1] | 42 | long format.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 43 |
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[bdc08c1] | 44 | <sect4><title>dircolors</title>
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[2c094d6] | 45 | <para>dircolors outputs commands to set the LS_COLOR environment variable.
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[6370fa6] | 46 | The LS_COLOR variable is use to change the default color scheme used by
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[bdc08c1] | 47 | ls and related utilities.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 48 |
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[bdc08c1] | 49 | <sect4><title>du</title>
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[2c094d6] | 50 | <para>du displays the amount of disk space used by each file or directory
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| 51 | listed on the command-line and by each of their subdirectories.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 52 |
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[bdc08c1] | 53 | <sect4><title>install</title>
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[b822811] | 54 | <para>install copies files and sets their permission modes and, if possible,
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[bdc08c1] | 55 | their owner and group.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 56 |
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[bdc08c1] | 57 | <sect4><title>ln</title>
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| 58 | <para>ln makes hard or soft (symbolic) links between files.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 59 |
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[bdc08c1] | 60 | <sect4><title>mkdir</title>
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| 61 | <para>mkdir creates directories with a given name.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 62 |
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[bdc08c1] | 63 | <sect4><title>mkfifo</title>
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| 64 | <para>mkfifo creates a FIFO with each given name.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 65 |
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[bdc08c1] | 66 | <sect4><title>mknod</title>
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[695ae0bc] | 67 | <para>mknod creates a FIFO, character special file or block special file
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[bdc08c1] | 68 | with the given file name.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 69 |
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[bdc08c1] | 70 | <sect4><title>mv</title>
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[b822811] | 71 | <para>mv moves files from one directory to another or renames files, depending
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[bdc08c1] | 72 | on the arguments given to mv.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 73 |
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[bdc08c1] | 74 | <sect4><title>rm</title>
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| 75 | <para>rm removes files or directories.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 76 |
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[bdc08c1] | 77 | <sect4><title>rmdir</title>
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| 78 | <para>rmdir removes directories, if they are empty.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 79 |
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[bdc08c1] | 80 | <sect4><title>shred</title>
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[b822811] | 81 | <para>shred deletes a file securely, overwriting it first so that its
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[bdc08c1] | 82 | contents can't be recovered.</para></sect4>
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[0f4f81c] | 83 |
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[bdc08c1] | 84 | <sect4><title>sync</title>
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[53ad30a] | 85 | <para>sync forces changed blocks to disk and updates the
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[bdc08c1] | 86 | super block.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 87 |
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[bdc08c1] | 88 | <sect4><title>touch</title>
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[b822811] | 89 | <para>touch changes the access and modification times of each given file to the
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[bdc08c1] | 90 | current time. Files that do not exist are created empty.</para></sect4>
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| 91 |
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| 92 | </sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 93 |
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| 94 | </sect2>
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