GNU Core Utilities

GNU Core Utilities
Developer(s) GNU Project
Stable release 8.30 (July 1, 2018 (2018-07-01)) [±][1]
Repository
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Written in C
Operating system Unix-like
Type Miscellaneous utilities
License GNU GPL v3
Website www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing reimplementations for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, which are used on Unix-like operating systems.

In September 2002, the GNU coreutils were created by merging the earlier packages textutils, shellutils, and fileutils, along with some other miscellaneous utilities.[2] In July 2007, the license of the GNU coreutils was updated from GPLv2 to GPLv3.[3]

The GNU core utilities support long options as parameters to the commands, as well as (unless the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set) the relaxed convention allowing options even after the regular arguments. Note that this environment variable enables a different functionality in BSD.

See the List of GNU Core Utilities commands for a brief description of included commands.

Alternative implementation packages are available in the FOSS ecosystem, with a slightly different scope and focus, or license. For example, GPLv2-licensed BusyBox and BSD-licensed Toybox are available for use in embedded devices.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Brady, Pádraig (2018-07-01). "[coreutils-announce] coreutils-8.30 released [stable]". coreutils-announce (Mailing list). Retrieved 2018-07-01.
  2. ↑ Meyering, Jim (2003-01-13). "README-package-renamed-to-coreutils". Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  3. ↑ Meyering, Jim (2007-07-23). "COPYING: Update to Version 3". Retrieved 2018-08-15.
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