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- <sect2>
- <title>Contents</title>
- <para>The Fileutils package contains the chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, dd, df, dir,
- dircolors, du, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir,
- sync, touch and vdir programs.</para>
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title>Description</title>
- <sect3><title>chgrp</title>
- <para>chgrp changes the group ownership of each given file to the named group,
- which can be either a group name or a numeric group ID.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>chmod</title>
- <para>chmod changes the permissions of each given file according to mode, which
- can be either a symbolic representation of changes to make, or an octal
- number representing the bit pattern for the new permissions.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>chown</title>
- <para>chown changes the user and/or group ownership of each given file.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>cp</title>
- <para>cp copies files from one place to another.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>dd</title>
- <para>dd copies a file (from the standard input to the standard output, by
- default) with a user-selectable blocksize, while optionally performing
- conversions on it.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>df</title>
- <para>df displays the amount of disk space available on the filesystem
- containing each file name argument. If no file name is given, the space
- available on all currently mounted filesystems is shown.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>ls, dir and vdir</title>
- <para>dir and vdir are versions of ls with different default output formats.
- These programs list each given file or directory name. Directory contents
- are sorted alphabetically. For ls, files are by default listed in columns,
- sorted vertically, if the standard output is a terminal; otherwise they
- are listed one per line. For dir, files are by default listed in columns,
- sorted vertically. For vdir, files are by default listed in long format.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>dircolors</title>
- <para>dircolors outputs commands to set the LS_COLOR environment variable.
- The LS_COLOR variable is use to change the default color scheme used by
- ls and related utilities.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>du</title>
- <para>du displays the amount of disk space used by each argument and for each
- subdirectory of directory arguments.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>install</title>
- <para>install copies files and sets their permission modes and, if possible,
- their owner and group.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>ln</title>
- <para>ln makes hard or soft (symbolic) links between files.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>mkdir</title>
- <para>mkdir creates directories with a given name.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>mkfifo</title>
- <para>mkfifo creates a FIFO with each given name.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>mknod</title>
- <para>mknod creates a FIFO, character special file, or block special file
- with the given file name.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>mv</title>
- <para>mv moves files from one directory to another or renames files, depending
- on the arguments given to mv.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>rm</title>
- <para>rm removes files or directories.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>rmdir</title>
- <para>rmdir removes directories, if they are empty.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>shred</title>
- <para>shred deletes a file securely, overwriting it first so that its
- contents can't be recovered.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>sync</title>
- <para>sync forces changed blocks to disk and updates the super block.</para>
- </sect3>
- <sect3><title>touch</title>
- <para>touch changes the access and modification times of each given file to the
- current time. Files that do not exist are created empty.</para>
- </sect3>
- </sect2>
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