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<sect2><title>Contents of Fileutils</title>
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<para>Last checked against version &fileutils-contversion;.</para>
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<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
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<para>chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, dd, df, dir, dircolors, du, install, ln,
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ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, shred, sync, touch
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and vdir</para></sect3>
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<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
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<sect4><title>chgrp</title>
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<para>chgrp changes the group ownership of each given file to the named group,
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which can be either a group name or a numeric group ID.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>chmod</title>
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<para>chmod changes the permissions of each given file according to mode, which
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can be either a symbolic representation of changes to make or an octal
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number representing the bit pattern for the new permissions.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>chown</title>
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<para>chown changes the user and/or group ownership of each
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given file.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>cp</title>
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<para>cp copies files from one place to another.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>dd</title>
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<para>dd copies a file (from the standard input to the standard output, by
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default) with a user-selectable blocksize, while optionally performing
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conversions on it.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>df</title>
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<para>df displays the amount of disk space available on the filesystem
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containing each file name argument. If no file name is given, the space
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available on all currently mounted filesystems is shown.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>dir, ls and vdir</title>
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<para>dir and vdir are versions of ls with different default output formats.
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These programs list each given file or directory name. Directory contents
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are sorted alphabetically. For ls, files are, by default, listed in columns
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sorted vertically if the standard output is a terminal; otherwise they
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are listed one per line. For dir, files are, by default, listed in columns
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sorted vertically. For vdir, files are, by default, listed in
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long format.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>dircolors</title>
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<para>dircolors outputs commands to set the LS_COLOR environment variable.
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The LS_COLOR variable is use to change the default color scheme used by
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ls and related utilities.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>du</title>
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<para>du displays the amount of disk space used by each file or directory
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listed on the command-line and by each of their subdirectories.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>install</title>
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<para>install copies files and sets their permission modes and, if possible,
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their owner and group.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>ln</title>
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<para>ln makes hard or soft (symbolic) links between files.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>mkdir</title>
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<para>mkdir creates directories with a given name.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>mkfifo</title>
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<para>mkfifo creates a FIFO with each given name.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>mknod</title>
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<para>mknod creates a FIFO, character special file or block special file
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with the given file name.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>mv</title>
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<para>mv moves files from one directory to another or renames files, depending
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on the arguments given to mv.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>rm</title>
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<para>rm removes files or directories.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>rmdir</title>
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<para>rmdir removes directories, if they are empty.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>shred</title>
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<para>shred deletes a file securely, overwriting it first so that its
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contents can't be recovered.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>sync</title>
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<para>sync forces changed blocks to disk and updates the
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super block.</para></sect4>
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<sect4><title>touch</title>
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<para>touch changes the access and modification times of each given file to the
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current time. Files that do not exist are created empty.</para></sect4>
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</sect3>
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