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2 | <title>Contents</title>
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3 |
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4 | <para>The Fileutils package contains the chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, dd, df, dir,
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5 | dircolors, du, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir,
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6 | sync, touch and vdir programs.</para>
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7 |
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8 | </sect2>
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9 |
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10 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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11 |
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12 | <sect3><title>chgrp</title>
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13 |
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14 | <para>chgrp changes the group ownership of each given file to the named group,
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15 | which can be either a group name or a numeric group ID.</para>
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16 |
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17 | </sect3>
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18 |
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19 | <sect3><title>chmod</title>
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20 |
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21 | <para>chmod changes the permissions of each given file according to mode, which
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22 | can be either a symbolic representation of changes to make, or an octal
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23 | number representing the bit pattern for the new permissions.</para>
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24 |
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25 | </sect3>
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26 |
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27 | <sect3><title>chown</title>
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28 |
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29 | <para>chown changes the user and/or group ownership of each given file.</para>
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30 |
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31 | </sect3>
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32 |
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33 | <sect3><title>cp</title>
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34 |
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35 | <para>cp copies files from one place to another.</para>
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36 |
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37 | </sect3>
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38 |
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39 | <sect3><title>dd</title>
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40 |
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41 | <para>dd copies a file (from the standard input to the standard output, by
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42 | default) with a user-selectable blocksize, while optionally performing
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43 | conversions on it.</para>
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44 |
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45 | </sect3>
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46 |
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47 | <sect3><title>df</title>
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48 |
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49 | <para>df displays the amount of disk space available on the filesystem
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50 | containing each file name argument. If no file name is given, the space
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51 | available on all currently mounted filesystems is shown.</para>
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52 |
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53 | </sect3>
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54 |
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55 | <sect3><title>ls, dir and vdir</title>
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56 |
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57 | <para>dir and vdir are versions of ls with different default output formats.
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58 | These programs list each given file or directory name. Directory contents
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59 | are sorted alphabetically. For ls, files are by default listed in columns,
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60 | sorted vertically, if the standard output is a terminal; otherwise they
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61 | are listed one per line. For dir, files are by default listed in columns,
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62 | sorted vertically. For vdir, files are by default listed in long format.</para>
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63 |
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64 | </sect3>
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65 |
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66 | <sect3><title>dircolors</title>
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67 |
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68 | <para>dircolors outputs commands to set the LS_COLOR environment variable.
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69 | The LS_COLOR variable is use to change the default color scheme used by
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70 | ls and related utilities.</para>
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71 |
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72 | </sect3>
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73 |
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74 | <sect3><title>du</title>
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75 |
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76 | <para>du displays the amount of disk space used by each argument and for each
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77 | subdirectory of directory arguments.</para>
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78 |
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79 | </sect3>
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80 |
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81 | <sect3><title>install</title>
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82 |
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83 | <para>install copies files and sets their permission modes and, if possible,
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84 | their owner and group.</para>
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85 |
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86 | </sect3>
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87 |
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88 | <sect3><title>ln</title>
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89 |
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90 | <para>ln makes hard or soft (symbolic) links between files.</para>
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91 |
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92 | </sect3>
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93 |
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94 | <sect3><title>mkdir</title>
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95 |
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96 | <para>mkdir creates directories with a given name.</para>
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97 |
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98 | </sect3>
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99 |
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100 | <sect3><title>mkfifo</title>
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101 |
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102 | <para>mkfifo creates a FIFO with each given name.</para>
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103 |
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104 | </sect3>
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105 |
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106 | <sect3><title>mknod</title>
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107 |
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108 | <para>mknod creates a FIFO, character special file, or block special file
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109 | with the given file name.</para>
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110 |
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111 | </sect3>
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112 |
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113 | <sect3><title>mv</title>
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114 |
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115 | <para>mv moves files from one directory to another or renames files, depending
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116 | on the arguments given to mv.</para>
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117 |
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118 | </sect3>
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119 |
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120 | <sect3><title>rm</title>
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121 |
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122 | <para>rm removes files or directories.</para>
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123 |
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124 | </sect3>
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125 |
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126 | <sect3><title>rmdir</title>
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127 |
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128 | <para>rmdir removes directories, if they are empty.</para>
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129 |
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130 | </sect3>
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131 |
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132 | <sect3><title>shred</title>
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133 |
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134 | <para>shred deletes a file securely, overwriting it first so that its
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135 | contents can't be recovered.</para>
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136 |
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137 | </sect3>
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138 |
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139 | <sect3><title>sync</title>
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140 |
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141 | <para>sync forces changed blocks to disk and updates the super block.</para>
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142 |
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143 | </sect3>
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144 |
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145 | <sect3><title>touch</title>
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146 |
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147 | <para>touch changes the access and modification times of each given file to the
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148 | current time. Files that do not exist are created empty.</para>
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149 |
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150 | </sect3>
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151 |
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152 | </sect2>
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153 |
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