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    112112
    113 <variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
     113<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short descriptions</bridgehead>
     114<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
    114115
    115116<varlistentry id="basename">
    116117<term><command>basename</command></term>
    117118<listitem>
     119<para>strips any path and a given suffix from a given file name.</para>
    118120<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils basename"><primary sortas="b-basename">basename</primary></indexterm>
    119 <para>strips any path and a given suffix from a given file name.</para>
    120121</listitem>
    121122</varlistentry>
    … …  
    124125<term><command>cat</command></term>
    125126<listitem>
     127<para>concatenates files to standard output.</para>
    126128<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils cat"><primary sortas="b-cat">cat</primary></indexterm>
    127 <para>concatenates files to standard output.</para>
    128129</listitem>
    129130</varlistentry>
    … …  
    132133<term><command>chgrp</command></term>
    133134<listitem>
    134 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils chgrp"><primary sortas="b-chgrp">chgrp</primary></indexterm>
    135135<para>changes the group ownership of each given file to the given
    136136group. The group can either be either given a name or a numeric
    137137ID.</para>
     138<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils chgrp"><primary sortas="b-chgrp">chgrp</primary></indexterm>
    138139</listitem>
    139140</varlistentry>
    … …  
    142143<term><command>chmod</command></term>
    143144<listitem>
    144 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils chmod"><primary sortas="b-chmod">chmod</primary></indexterm>
    145145<para>changes the permissions of each file to the given mode. The mode
    146146can be either a symbolic representation of the changes to make or an
    147147octal number representing the new permissions.</para>
     148<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils chmod"><primary sortas="b-chmod">chmod</primary></indexterm>
    148149</listitem>
    149150</varlistentry>
    … …  
    152153<term><command>chown</command></term>
    153154<listitem>
    154 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils chown"><primary sortas="b-chown">chown</primary></indexterm>
    155155<para>changes the user and/or group ownership of
    156156each given file to the given user/group pair.</para>
     157<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils chown"><primary sortas="b-chown">chown</primary></indexterm>
    157158</listitem>
    158159</varlistentry>
    … …  
    161162<term><command>chroot</command></term>
    162163<listitem>
    163 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils chroot"><primary sortas="b-chroot">chroot</primary></indexterm>
    164164<para>runs a given command with the specified directory as the
    165165<filename class="directory">/</filename> directory. The given command can be an interactive shell.
    166166On most systems only <emphasis>root</emphasis> can do this.</para>
     167<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils chroot"><primary sortas="b-chroot">chroot</primary></indexterm>
    167168</listitem>
    168169</varlistentry>
    … …  
    171172<term><command>cksum</command></term>
    172173<listitem>
    173 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils cksum"><primary sortas="b-cksum">cksum</primary></indexterm>
    174174<para>prints the Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) checksum and the byte
    175175counts of each specified file.</para>
     176<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils cksum"><primary sortas="b-cksum">cksum</primary></indexterm>
    176177</listitem>
    177178</varlistentry>
    … …  
    180181<term><command>comm</command></term>
    181182<listitem>
    182 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils comm"><primary sortas="b-comm">comm</primary></indexterm>
    183183<para>compares two sorted files, outputting in three columns the lines
    184184that are unique and the lines that are common.</para>
     185<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils comm"><primary sortas="b-comm">comm</primary></indexterm>
    185186</listitem>
    186187</varlistentry>
    … …  
    189190<term><command>cp</command></term>
    190191<listitem>
     192<para>copies files.</para>
    191193<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils cp"><primary sortas="b-cp">cp</primary></indexterm>
    192 <para>copies files.</para>
    193194</listitem>
    194195</varlistentry>
    … …  
    197198<term><command>csplit</command></term>
    198199<listitem>
    199 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils csplit"><primary sortas="b-csplit">csplit</primary></indexterm>
    200200<para>splits a given file into several new files, separating them
    201201according to given patterns or line numbers and outputting the byte
    202202count of each new file.</para>
     203<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils csplit"><primary sortas="b-csplit">csplit</primary></indexterm>
    203204</listitem>
    204205</varlistentry>
    … …  
    207208<term><command>cut</command></term>
    208209<listitem>
    209 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils cut"><primary sortas="b-cut">cut</primary></indexterm>
    210210<para>prints sections of lines, selecting the parts according to given
    211211fields or positions.</para>
     212<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils cut"><primary sortas="b-cut">cut</primary></indexterm>
    212213</listitem>
    213214</varlistentry>
    … …  
    216217<term><command>date</command></term>
    217218<listitem>
    218 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils date"><primary sortas="b-date">date</primary></indexterm>
    219219<para>displays the current time in the given format, or sets the
    220220system date.</para>
     221<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils date"><primary sortas="b-date">date</primary></indexterm>
    221222</listitem>
    222223</varlistentry>
    … …  
    225226<term><command>dd</command> </term>
    226227<listitem>
    227 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils dd"><primary sortas="b-dd">dd</primary></indexterm>
    228228<para>copies a file using the given block size and count, while
    229229optionally performing conversions on it.</para>
     230<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils dd"><primary sortas="b-dd">dd</primary></indexterm>
    230231</listitem>
    231232</varlistentry>
    … …  
    234235<term><command>df</command></term>
    235236<listitem>
    236 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils df"><primary sortas="b-df">df</primary></indexterm>
    237237<para>reports the amount of disk space available (and used) on all
    238238mounted file systems, or only on the file systems holding the selected
    239239files.</para>
     240<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils df"><primary sortas="b-df">df</primary></indexterm>
    240241</listitem>
    241242</varlistentry>
    … …  
    244245<term><command>dir</command></term>
    245246<listitem>
    246 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils dir"><primary sortas="b-dir">dir</primary></indexterm>
    247247<para>lists the contents of each given directory. (the same as
    248248the <command>ls</command> command).</para>
     249<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils dir"><primary sortas="b-dir">dir</primary></indexterm>
    249250</listitem>
    250251</varlistentry>
    … …  
    253254<term><command>dircolors</command></term>
    254255<listitem>
    255 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils dircolors"><primary sortas="b-dircolors">dircolors</primary></indexterm>
    256256<para>outputs commands to set the <emphasis>LS_COLOR</emphasis>
    257257environment variable to change the color scheme used by
    258258<command>ls</command>.</para>
     259<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils dircolors"><primary sortas="b-dircolors">dircolors</primary></indexterm>
    259260</listitem>
    260261</varlistentry>
    … …  
    263264<term><command>dirname</command></term>
    264265<listitem>
     266<para>strips the non-directory suffix from a file name.</para>
    265267<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils dirname"><primary sortas="b-dirname">dirname</primary></indexterm>
    266 <para>strips the non-directory suffix from a file name.</para>
    267268</listitem>
    268269</varlistentry>
    … …  
    271272<term><command>du</command></term>
    272273<listitem>
    273 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils du"><primary sortas="b-du">du</primary></indexterm>
    274274<para>reports the amount of disk space used by the current directory,
    275275by each of the given directories (including all subdirectories), or by
    276276each of the given files.</para>
     277<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils du"><primary sortas="b-du">du</primary></indexterm>
    277278</listitem>
    278279</varlistentry>
    … …  
    281282<term><command>echo</command></term>
    282283<listitem>
     284<para>displays the given strings.</para>
    283285<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils echo"><primary sortas="b-echo">echo</primary></indexterm>
    284 <para>displays the given strings.</para>
    285286</listitem>
    286287</varlistentry>
    … …  
    289290<term><command>env</command></term>
    290291<listitem>
     292<para>runs a command in a modified environment.</para>
    291293<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils env"><primary sortas="b-env">env</primary></indexterm>
    292 <para>runs a command in a modified environment.</para>
    293294</listitem>
    294295</varlistentry>
    … …  
    297298<term><command>expand</command></term>
    298299<listitem>
     300<para>converts tabs to spaces.</para>
    299301<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils expand"><primary sortas="b-expand">expand</primary></indexterm>
    300 <para>converts tabs to spaces.</para>
    301302</listitem>
    302303</varlistentry>
    … …  
    305306<term><command>expr</command></term>
    306307<listitem>
     308<para>evaluates expressions.</para>
    307309<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils expr"><primary sortas="b-expr">expr</primary></indexterm>
    308 <para>evaluates expressions.</para>
    309310</listitem>
    310311</varlistentry>
    … …  
    313314<term><command>factor</command></term>
    314315<listitem>
     316<para>prints the prime factors of all specified integer numbers.</para>
    315317<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils factor"><primary sortas="b-factor">factor</primary></indexterm>
    316 <para>prints the prime factors of all specified integer numbers.</para>
    317318</listitem>
    318319</varlistentry>
    … …  
    321322<term><command>false</command></term>
    322323<listitem>
    323 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils false"><primary sortas="b-false">false</primary></indexterm>
    324324<para>does nothing, unsuccessfully. It always exits with a status code
    325325indicating failure.</para>
     326<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils false"><primary sortas="b-false">false</primary></indexterm>
    326327</listitem>
    327328</varlistentry>
    … …  
    330331<term><command>fmt</command></term>
    331332<listitem>
     333<para>reformats the paragraphs in the given files.</para>
    332334<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils mt"><primary sortas="b-mt">mt</primary></indexterm>
    333 <para>reformats the paragraphs in the given files.</para>
    334335</listitem>
    335336</varlistentry>
    … …  
    338339<term><command>fold</command></term>
    339340<listitem>
     341<para>wraps the lines in the given files.</para>
    340342<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils fold"><primary sortas="b-fold">fold</primary></indexterm>
    341 <para>wraps the lines in the given files.</para>
    342343</listitem>
    343344</varlistentry>
    … …  
    346347<term><command>groups</command></term>
    347348<listitem>
     349<para>reports a user's group memberships.</para>
    348350<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils groups-coreutils"><primary sortas="b-groups-coreutils">groups</primary></indexterm>
    349 <para>reports a user's group memberships.</para>
    350351</listitem>
    351352</varlistentry>
    … …  
    354355<term><command>head</command></term>
    355356<listitem>
     357<para>prints the first ten lines (or the given number of lines) of each given file.</para>
    356358<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils head"><primary sortas="b-head">head</primary></indexterm>
    357 <para>prints the first ten lines (or the given number of lines) of each given file.</para>
    358359</listitem>
    359360</varlistentry>
    … …  
    362363<term><command>hostid</command></term>
    363364<listitem>
     365<para>reports the numeric identifier (in hexadecimal) of the host.</para>
    364366<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils hostid"><primary sortas="b-hostid">hostid</primary></indexterm>
    365 <para>reports the numeric identifier (in hexadecimal) of the host.</para>
    366367</listitem>
    367368</varlistentry>
    … …  
    370371<term><command>hostname</command></term>
    371372<listitem>
     373<para>reports or sets the name of the host.</para>
    372374<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils hostname"><primary sortas="b-hostname">hostname</primary></indexterm>
    373 <para>reports or sets the name of the host.</para>
    374375</listitem>
    375376</varlistentry>
    … …  
    378379<term><command>id</command></term>
    379380<listitem>
    380 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils id"><primary sortas="b-id">id</primary></indexterm>
    381381<para>reports the effective user ID, group ID, and
    382382group memberships of the current user or specified user.</para>
     383<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils id"><primary sortas="b-id">id</primary></indexterm>
    383384</listitem>
    384385</varlistentry>
    … …  
    387388<term><command>install</command> </term>
    388389<listitem>
    389 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils install"><primary sortas="b-install">install</primary></indexterm>
    390390<para>copies files while setting their
    391391permission modes and, if possible, their owner and group.</para>
     392<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils install"><primary sortas="b-install">install</primary></indexterm>
    392393</listitem>
    393394</varlistentry>
    … …  
    396397<term><command>join</command></term>
    397398<listitem>
    398 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils join"><primary sortas="b-join">join</primary></indexterm>
    399399<para>joins the lines that have identical join fields from two
    400400separate files.</para>
     401<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils join"><primary sortas="b-join">join</primary></indexterm>
    401402</listitem>
    402403</varlistentry>
    … …  
    405406<term><command>link</command></term>
    406407<listitem>
     408<para>creates a hard link with the given name to a file.</para>
    407409<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils link"><primary sortas="b-link">link</primary></indexterm>
    408 <para>creates a hard link with the given name to a file.</para>
    409410</listitem>
    410411</varlistentry>
    … …  
    413414<term><command>ln</command></term>
    414415<listitem>
     416<para>makes hard links or soft (symbolic) links between files.</para>
    415417<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils ln"><primary sortas="b-ln">ln</primary></indexterm>
    416 <para>makes hard links or soft (symbolic) links between files.</para>
    417418</listitem>
    418419</varlistentry>
    … …  
    421422<term><command>logname</command></term>
    422423<listitem>
     424<para>reports the current user's login name.</para>
    423425<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils logname"><primary sortas="b-logname">logname</primary></indexterm>
    424 <para>reports the current user's login name.</para>
    425426</listitem>
    426427</varlistentry>
    … …  
    429430<term><command>ls</command></term>
    430431<listitem>
     432<para>lists the contents of each given directory.</para>
    431433<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils ls"><primary sortas="b-ls">ls</primary></indexterm>
    432 <para>lists the contents of each given directory.</para>
    433434</listitem>
    434435</varlistentry>
    … …  
    437438<term><command>md5sum</command></term>
    438439<listitem>
     440<para>reports or checks Message Digest 5 (MD5) checksums.</para>
    439441<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils md5sum"><primary sortas="b-md5sum">md5sum</primary></indexterm>
    440 <para>reports or checks Message Digest 5 (MD5) checksums.</para>
    441442</listitem>
    442443</varlistentry>
    … …  
    445446<term><command>mkdir</command></term>
    446447<listitem>
     448<para>creates directories with the given names.</para>
    447449<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils mkdir"><primary sortas="b-mkdir">mkdir</primary></indexterm>
    448 <para>creates directories with the given names.</para>
    449450</listitem>
    450451</varlistentry>
    … …  
    453454<term><command>mkfifo</command></term>
    454455<listitem>
    455 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils mkfifo"><primary sortas="b-mkfifo">mkfifo</primary></indexterm>
    456456<para>creates First-In, First-Outs (FIFOs), a <quote>named
    457457pipe</quote> in UNIX parlance, with the given names.</para>
     458<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils mkfifo"><primary sortas="b-mkfifo">mkfifo</primary></indexterm>
    458459</listitem>
    459460</varlistentry>
    … …  
    462463<term><command>mknod</command></term>
    463464<listitem>
    464 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils mknod"><primary sortas="b-mknod">mknod</primary></indexterm>
    465465<para>creates device nodes with the given names. A device node is a
    466466character special file, a block special file, or a FIFO.</para>
     467<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils mknod"><primary sortas="b-mknod">mknod</primary></indexterm>
    467468</listitem>
    468469</varlistentry>
    … …  
    471472<term><command>mv</command></term>
    472473<listitem>
     474<para>moves or renames files or directories.</para>
    473475<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils mv"><primary sortas="b-mv">mv</primary></indexterm>
    474 <para>moves or renames files or directories.</para>
    475476</listitem>
    476477</varlistentry>
    … …  
    479480<term><command>nice</command></term>
    480481<listitem>
     482<para>runs a program with modified scheduling priority.</para>
    481483<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils nice"><primary sortas="b-nice">nice</primary></indexterm>
    482 <para>runs a program with modified scheduling priority.</para>
    483484</listitem>
    484485</varlistentry>
    … …  
    487488<term><command>nl</command></term>
    488489<listitem>
     490<para>numbers the lines from the given files.</para>
    489491<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils nl"><primary sortas="b-nl">nl</primary></indexterm>
    490 <para>numbers the lines from the given files.</para>
    491492</listitem>
    492493</varlistentry>
    … …  
    495496<term><command>nohup</command></term>
    496497<listitem>
    497 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils nohup"><primary sortas="b-nohup">nohup</primary></indexterm>
    498498<para>runs a command immune to hangups, with its output redirected to
    499499a log file.</para>
     500<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils nohup"><primary sortas="b-nohup">nohup</primary></indexterm>
    500501</listitem>
    501502</varlistentry>
    … …  
    504505<term><command>od</command></term>
    505506<listitem>
     507<para>dumps files in octal and other formats.</para>
    506508<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils od"><primary sortas="b-od">od</primary></indexterm>
    507 <para>dumps files in octal and other formats.</para>
    508509</listitem>
    509510</varlistentry>
    … …  
    512513<term><command>paste</command></term>
    513514<listitem>
    514 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils paste"><primary sortas="b-paste">paste</primary></indexterm>
    515515<para>merges the given files, joining sequentially corresponding lines
    516516side by side, separated by tab characters.</para>
     517<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils paste"><primary sortas="b-paste">paste</primary></indexterm>
    517518</listitem>
    518519</varlistentry>
    … …  
    521522<term><command>pathchk</command></term>
    522523<listitem>
     524<para>checks if file names are valid or portable.</para>
    523525<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils pathchk"><primary sortas="b-pathchk">pathchk</primary></indexterm>
    524 <para>checks if file names are valid or portable.</para>
    525526</listitem>
    526527</varlistentry>
    … …  
    529530<term><command>pinky</command></term>
    530531<listitem>
     532<para>is a lightweight finger client. It reports some information about the given users.</para>
    531533<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils pinky"><primary sortas="b-pinky">pinky</primary></indexterm>
    532 <para>is a lightweight finger client. It reports some information about the given users.</para>
    533534</listitem>
    534535</varlistentry>
    … …  
    537538<term><command>pr</command></term>
    538539<listitem>
     540<para>paginates and columnates files for printing.</para>
    539541<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils pr"><primary sortas="b-pr">pr</primary></indexterm>
    540 <para>paginates and columnates files for printing.</para>
    541542</listitem>
    542543</varlistentry>
    … …  
    545546<term><command>printenv</command></term>
    546547<listitem>
     548<para>prints the environment.</para>
    547549<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils printenv"><primary sortas="b-printenv">printenv</primary></indexterm>
    548 <para>prints the environment.</para>
    549550</listitem>
    550551</varlistentry>
    … …  
    553554<term><command>printf</command></term>
    554555<listitem>
    555 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils printf"><primary sortas="b-printf">printf</primary></indexterm>
    556556<para>prints the given arguments according to the given format, much
    557557like the C printf function.</para>
     558<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils printf"><primary sortas="b-printf">printf</primary></indexterm>
    558559</listitem>
    559560</varlistentry>
    … …  
    562563<term><command>ptx</command></term>
    563564<listitem>
    564 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils ptx"><primary sortas="b-ptx">ptx</primary></indexterm>
    565565<para>produces a permuted index from the contents of the given files,
    566566with each keyword in its context.</para>
     567<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils ptx"><primary sortas="b-ptx">ptx</primary></indexterm>
    567568</listitem>
    568569</varlistentry>
    … …  
    571572<term><command>pwd</command></term>
    572573<listitem>
     574<para>reports the name of the current working directory.</para>
    573575<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils pwd"><primary sortas="b-pwd">pwd</primary></indexterm>
    574 <para>reports the name of the current working directory.</para>
    575576</listitem>
    576577</varlistentry>
    … …  
    579580<term><command>readlink</command></term>
    580581<listitem>
     582<para>reports the value of the given symbolic link.</para>
    581583<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils readlink"><primary sortas="b-readlink">readlink</primary></indexterm>
    582 <para>reports the value of the given symbolic link.</para>
    583584</listitem>
    584585</varlistentry>
    … …  
    587588<term><command>rm</command></term>
    588589<listitem>
     590<para>removes files or directories.</para>
    589591<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils rm"><primary sortas="b-rm">rm</primary></indexterm>
    590 <para>removes files or directories.</para>
    591592</listitem>
    592593</varlistentry>
    … …  
    595596<term><command>rmdir</command></term>
    596597<listitem>
     598<para>removes directories if they are empty.</para>
    597599<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils rmdir"><primary sortas="b-rmdir">rmdir</primary></indexterm>
    598 <para>removes directories if they are empty.</para>
    599600</listitem>
    600601</varlistentry>
    … …  
    603604<term><command>seq</command></term>
    604605<listitem>
    605 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils seq"><primary sortas="b-seq">seq</primary></indexterm>
    606606<para>prints a sequence of numbers within a given range and with a
    607607given increment.</para>
     608<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils seq"><primary sortas="b-seq">seq</primary></indexterm>
    608609</listitem>
    609610</varlistentry>
    … …  
    612613<term><command>sha1sum</command></term>
    613614<listitem>
     615<para>prints or checks 160-bit Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1) checksums.</para>
    614616<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils sha1sum"><primary sortas="b-sha1sum">sha1sum</primary></indexterm>
    615 <para>prints or checks 160-bit Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1) checksums.</para>
    616617</listitem>
    617618</varlistentry>
    … …  
    620621<term><command>shred</command></term>
    621622<listitem>
    622 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils shred"><primary sortas="b-shred">shred</primary></indexterm>
    623623<para>overwrites the given files repeatedly with complex patterns,
    624624making it difficult to recover the data.</para>
     625<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils shred"><primary sortas="b-shred">shred</primary></indexterm>
    625626</listitem>
    626627</varlistentry>
    … …  
    629630<term><command>sleep</command></term>
    630631<listitem>
     632<para>pauses for the given amount of time.</para>
    631633<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils sleep"><primary sortas="b-sleep">sleep</primary></indexterm>
    632 <para>pauses for the given amount of time.</para>
    633634</listitem>
    634635</varlistentry>
    … …  
    637638<term><command>sort</command></term>
    638639<listitem>
     640<para>sorts the lines from the given files.</para>
    639641<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils sort"><primary sortas="b-sort">sort</primary></indexterm>
    640 <para>sorts the lines from the given files.</para>
    641642</listitem>
    642643</varlistentry>
    … …  
    645646<term><command>split</command></term>
    646647<listitem>
     648<para>splits the given file into pieces, by size or by number of lines.</para>
    647649<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils split"><primary sortas="b-split">split</primary></indexterm>
    648 <para>splits the given file into pieces, by size or by number of lines.</para>
    649650</listitem>
    650651</varlistentry>
    … …  
    653654<term><command>stty</command></term>
    654655<listitem>
     656<para>sets or reports terminal line settings.</para>
    655657<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils stty"><primary sortas="b-stty">stty</primary></indexterm>
    656 <para>sets or reports terminal line settings.</para>
    657658</listitem>
    658659</varlistentry>
    … …  
    661662<term><command>su</command></term>
    662663<listitem>
     664<para>runs a shell with substitute user and group IDs.</para>
    663665<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils su"><primary sortas="b-su">su</primary></indexterm>
    664 <para>runs a shell with substitute user and group IDs.</para>
    665666</listitem>
    666667</varlistentry>
    … …  
    669670<term><command>sum</command></term>
    670671<listitem>
     672<para>prints checksum and block counts for each given file.</para>
    671673<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils sum"><primary sortas="b-sum">sum</primary></indexterm>
    672 <para>prints checksum and block counts for each given file.</para>
    673674</listitem>
    674675</varlistentry>
    … …  
    677678<term><command>sync</command></term>
    678679<listitem>
    679 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils sync"><primary sortas="b-sync">sync</primary></indexterm>
    680680<para>flushes file system buffers. It forces changed blocks to disk
    681681and updates the super block.</para>
     682<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils sync"><primary sortas="b-sync">sync</primary></indexterm>
    682683</listitem>
    683684</varlistentry>
    … …  
    686687<term><command>tac</command></term>
    687688<listitem>
     689<para>concatenates the given files in reverse.</para>
    688690<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils tac"><primary sortas="b-tac">tac</primary></indexterm>
    689 <para>concatenates the given files in reverse.</para>
    690691</listitem>
    691692</varlistentry>
    … …  
    694695<term><command>tail</command></term>
    695696<listitem>
    696 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils tail"><primary sortas="b-tail">tail</primary></indexterm>
    697697<para>prints the last ten lines (or the given number of lines) of each
    698698given file.</para>
     699<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils tail"><primary sortas="b-tail">tail</primary></indexterm>
    699700</listitem>
    700701</varlistentry>
    … …  
    703704<term><command>tee</command></term>
    704705<listitem>
    705 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils tee"><primary sortas="b-tee">tee</primary></indexterm>
    706706<para>reads from standard input while writing both to standard output
    707707and to the given files.</para>
     708<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils tee"><primary sortas="b-tee">tee</primary></indexterm>
    708709</listitem>
    709710</varlistentry>
    … …  
    712713<term><command>test</command></term>
    713714<listitem>
     715<para>compares values and checks file types.</para>
    714716<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils test"><primary sortas="b-test">test</primary></indexterm>
    715 <para>compares values and checks file types.</para>
    716717</listitem>
    717718</varlistentry>
    … …  
    720721<term><command>touch</command></term>
    721722<listitem>
    722 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils touch"><primary sortas="b-touch">touch</primary></indexterm>
    723723<para>changes file timestamps, setting the access and modification
    724724times of the given files to the current time. Files that do not exist
    725725are created with zero length.</para>
     726<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils touch"><primary sortas="b-touch">touch</primary></indexterm>
    726727</listitem>
    727728</varlistentry>
    … …  
    730731<term><command>tr</command></term>
    731732<listitem>
    732 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils tr"><primary sortas="b-tr">tr</primary></indexterm>
    733733<para>translates, squeezes, and deletes the given characters from
    734734standard input.</para>
     735<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils tr"><primary sortas="b-tr">tr</primary></indexterm>
    735736</listitem>
    736737</varlistentry>
    … …  
    739740<term><command>true</command></term>
    740741<listitem>
    741 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils true"><primary sortas="b-true">true</primary></indexterm>
    742742<para>does nothing, successfully. It always exits with a status code
    743743indicating success.</para>
     744<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils true"><primary sortas="b-true">true</primary></indexterm>
    744745</listitem>
    745746</varlistentry>
    … …  
    748749<term><command>tsort</command></term>
    749750<listitem>
    750 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils tsort"><primary sortas="b-tsort">tsort</primary></indexterm>
    751751<para>performs a topological sort. It writes a totally ordered list
    752752according to the partial ordering in a given file.</para>
     753<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils tsort"><primary sortas="b-tsort">tsort</primary></indexterm>
    753754</listitem>
    754755</varlistentry>
    … …  
    757758<term><command>tty</command></term>
    758759<listitem>
    759 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils tty"><primary sortas="b-tty">tty</primary></indexterm>
    760760<para>reports the file name of the terminal connected to standard
    761761input.</para>
     762<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils tty"><primary sortas="b-tty">tty</primary></indexterm>
    762763</listitem>
    763764</varlistentry>
    … …  
    766767<term><command>uname</command></term>
    767768<listitem>
     769<para>reports system information.</para>
    768770<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils uname"><primary sortas="b-uname">uname</primary></indexterm>
    769 <para>reports system information.</para>
    770771</listitem>
    771772</varlistentry>
    … …  
    774775<term><command>unexpand</command></term>
    775776<listitem>
     777<para>converts spaces to tabs.</para>
    776778<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils unexpand"><primary sortas="b-unexpand">unexpand</primary></indexterm>
    777 <para>converts spaces to tabs.</para>
    778779</listitem>
    779780</varlistentry>
    … …  
    782783<term><command>uniq</command></term>
    783784<listitem>
    784 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils uniq"><primary sortas="b-uniq">uniq</primary></indexterm>
    785785<para>discards all but one of successive identical lines.</para>
     786<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils unexpand"><primary sortas="b-unexpand">unexpand</primary></indexterm>
    786787</listitem>
    787788</varlistentry>
    … …  
    790791<term><command>unlink</command></term>
    791792<listitem>
     793<para>removes the given file.</para>
    792794<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils unlink"><primary sortas="b-unlink">unlink</primary></indexterm>
    793 <para>removes the given file.</para>
    794795</listitem>
    795796</varlistentry>
    … …  
    798799<term><command>uptime</command></term>
    799800<listitem>
    800 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils uptime-coreutils"><primary sortas="b-uptime-coreutils">uptime</primary></indexterm>
    801801<para>reports how long the system has been running, how many users are
    802802logged on, and the system load averages.</para>
     803<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils uptime-coreutils"><primary sortas="b-uptime-coreutils">uptime</primary></indexterm>
    803804</listitem>
    804805</varlistentry>
    … …  
    807808<term><command>users</command></term>
    808809<listitem>
     810<para>reports the names of the users currently logged on.</para>
    809811<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils users"><primary sortas="b-users">users</primary></indexterm>
    810 <para>reports the names of the users currently logged on.</para>
    811812</listitem>
    812813</varlistentry>
    … …  
    815816<term><command>vdir</command></term>
    816817<listitem>
     818<para>is the same as <command>ls -l</command>.</para>
    817819<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils vdir"><primary sortas="b-vdir">vdir</primary></indexterm>
    818 <para>is the same as <command>ls -l</command>.</para>
    819820</listitem>
    820821</varlistentry>
    … …  
    823824<term><command>wc</command></term>
    824825<listitem>
    825 <indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils wc"><primary sortas="b-wc">wc</primary></indexterm>
    826826<para>reports the number of lines, words, and bytes for each given
    827827file, as well as a total line when more than one file is given.</para>
     828<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils wc"><primary sortas="b-wc">wc</primary></indexterm>
    828829</listitem>
    829830</varlistentry>
    … …  
    832833<term><command>who</command></term>
    833834<listitem>
     835<para>reports who is logged on.</para>
    834836<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils who"><primary sortas="b-who">who</primary></indexterm>
    835 <para>reports who is logged on.</para>
    836837</listitem>
    837838</varlistentry>
    … …  
    840841<term><command>whoami</command></term>
    841842<listitem>
     843<para>reports the user name associated with the current effective user ID.</para>
    842844<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils whoami"><primary sortas="b-whoami">whoami</primary></indexterm>
    843 <para>reports the user name associated with the current effective user ID.</para>
    844845</listitem>
    845846</varlistentry>
    … …  
    848849<term><command>yes</command></term>
    849850<listitem>
     851<para>outputs <quote>y</quote>, or a given string, repeatedly until killed.</para>
    850852<indexterm zone="ch-system-coreutils yes"><primary sortas="b-yes">yes</primary></indexterm>
    851 <para>outputs <quote>y</quote>, or a given string, repeatedly until killed.</para>
    852853</listitem>
    853854</varlistentry>
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