Fileutils

The GNU File Utilities are the basic file-manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system.

Fileutils, Shellutils, and Textutils have been combined into the GNU Coreutils package. All further development and discussion is now taking place as Coreutils. The last separate versions were fileutils-4.1.11, textutils-2.1, and sh-utils-2.0.15. The first major release of coreutils-5.0 was announced on Fri, 4 April 2003.

Please refer to the new coreutils home page at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html for more information.

Everyone is encouraged to update to the latest stable version of coreutils. However it is known that several distributions which released and shipped prior to the coreutils release were shipped with the previous stable versions of the individual fileutils, shellutils, and textutils packages. Those distributing these utilities are encouraged to update to coreutils at the time of their next major update.

The tools supplied with this package are:

• chgrp - Changes file group ownership.
• chown - Changes file ownership.
• chmod - Changes file permissions.
• cp - Copies files.
• dd - Copies and converts a file.
• df - Shows disk free space on filesystems.
• dir - Gives a brief directory listing.
• dircolors - Setup program for the color output of GNU ls.
• du - Shows disk usage on filesystems.
• install - Copies file and sets its permissions.
• ln - Creates file links.
• ls - Lists directory contents.
• mkdir - Creates directories.
• mkfifo - Creates FIFOs (named pipes).
• mknod - Creates special files.
• mv - Moves files.
• rm - Removes (deletes) files.
• rmdir - Removes empty directories.
• shred - Destroy data in files.
• sync - Synchronizes filesystem buffers and disk.
• touch - Changes file timestamps.
• vdir - Long directory listing.

Online Manual

The manual is available in the info system of the GNU Operating System. Use info to access the top level info page. Use info File to access the File Utilities section directly.

Web versions of the manual for these utilities is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/manual/html/fileutils.html.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please check the FAQ for the core utilities for answers to your most frequently asked questions. This FAQ contains answers to questions asked on the mailing lists and newsgroups.

Downloading

The latest version of fileutils is now included in the coreutils package. Please refer to the coreutils page for downloading information.

How to Get Help

For general discussion of bugs in the utilities the news group gnu.utils.bug is probably the most appropriate forum. An archive of the fileutils bug report mailing list is available at http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-fileutils/. An archive of the coreutils bug report mailing list is available at http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/.

How to Help

To contact the maintainers, either to report a bug or to contribute fixes or improvements, send mail to bug-coreutils@gnu.org.

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Updated: $Date: 2006/11/22 08:42:05 $ $Author: ramprasadb $