Name |
Description |
Provides |
Version 1 |
Date 1 |
Bash |
GNU's UNIX compatible shell |
bash |
4.2 (February 13, 2011; 11 months ago (2011-02-13))[1] |
20-02-2009 |
coreutils |
Base commands |
fileutils: chgrp, chown, chmod, cp, dd, df, dir, du, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, etc.
textutils: cat, cksum, head, tail, md5sum, nl, od, pr, tsort, join, wc, tac, paste, etc.
shellutils: basename, chroot, date, dirname, echo, env, groups, hostname, nice, nohup, printf, sleep, etc.
|
8.14 (October 12, 2011; 4 months ago (2011-10-12))[2] |
12-10-2011 |
cpio |
archiving program |
cpio |
2.11 (March 10, 2010; 22 months ago (2010-03-10))[3] |
20-12-2004 |
diffutils |
contains utilies to compare files |
diff, cmp, diff3, sdiff |
3.2 |
02-09-2011 |
findutils |
contains search utilities |
find, locate, xargs |
4.2.28 |
05-8-2006 |
finger |
user information |
n/a |
1.37 |
28-10-1992 |
grep |
search for strings in files |
grep |
2.10 |
16-11-2011 |
groff |
document processing system (groff) |
groff |
1.21 (December 31, 2010; 13 months ago (2010-12-31)) |
4-9-2005 |
GRUB 2 |
GRand Unified Bootloader |
grub |
1.99 (May 14, 2011; 8 months ago (2011-05-14)) |
14-05-2011 |
gzip |
compression program (gzip) |
gzip |
≥1.4 (January 20, 2010; 2 years ago (2010-01-20))[4] |
13-4-2007 |
hurd 3 |
a microkernel-based set of servers that perform the same function as a UNIX kernel |
n/a |
0.3 |
12-6-1997 |
inetutils |
useful utils for networking |
ftp, telnet, rsh, rlogin, tftp |
1.9 |
31-12-2011 |
plotutils |
useful utils for plotting to different devices |
graph, libplot, libplotter |
2.5 |
07-05-2006 |
readline |
useful library for reading command lines |
readline |
6.2 (February 14, 2011; 11 months ago (2011-02-14))[5] |
09-12-2005, 16-3-2006 |
screen |
a terminal multiplexer |
screen |
4.0.3 (August 8, 2008; 3 years ago (2008-08-08)) |
27-1-2004 |
tar |
Archiver able to create and handle file archives in various formats |
tar |
1.26 (March 13, 2011; 10 months ago (2011-03-13)) |
5-3-2009 |
texinfo |
documentation system for producing online and printed manuals |
n/a |
4.13a (September 22, 2008; 3 years ago (2008-09-22)) |
26-9-2006 |
time |
program to determine the duration of execution of a particular command |
time |
1.7 |
11-7-1996 |