fileutils

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.

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: