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