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Archiving

Cpio

Copy-in-copy-out archiver to tape or disk.

AVR Programming & development tools.

AvrDude

AVR program downloader/uploader.

Basics

Common options

Common options.

Coreutils

Core GNU (file, text, shell) utilities.

Date input formats

File permissions

Access modes.

Ed

The GNU line editor

Finding files

Operating on files matching certain criteria.

General Commands

Screen

Full-screen window manager.

GNU Utilities

gpg

OpenPGP encryption and signing tool (v1).

Individual utilities

arch

Print machine hardware name.

base64

Base64 encode/decode data.

basename

Strip directory and suffix.

cat

Concatenate and write files.

chcon

Change SELinux CTX of files.

chgrp

Change file groups.

chmod

Change file permissions.

chown

Change file owners/groups.

chroot

Specify the root directory.

cksum

Print POSIX CRC checksum.

comm

Compare sorted files by line.

cp

Copy files.

csplit

Split by context.

cut

Print selected parts of lines.

date

Print/set system date and time.

dd

Copy and convert a file.

df

Report file system disk usage.

dircolors

Color setup for ls.

dirname

Strip last file name component.

dir

List directories briefly.

du

Report on disk usage.

echo

Print a line of text.

env

Modify the environment.

expand

Convert tabs to spaces.

expr

Evaluate expressions.

factor

Print prime factors

false

Do nothing, unsuccessfully.

find

Finding and acting on files.

fmt

Reformat paragraph text.

fold

Wrap long input lines.

groups

Print group names a user is in.

gzip

Compress files.

head

Output the first part of files.

hostid

Print numeric host identifier.

hostname

Print or set system name.

id

Print user identity.

install

Copy and change attributes.

join

Join lines on a common field.

kill

Send a signal to processes.

link

Make hard links between files.

ln

Make links between files.

locate

Finding files in a database.

logname

Print current login name.

ls

List directory contents.

md5sum

Print or check MD5 digests.

mkdir

Create directories.

mkfifo

Create FIFOs (named pipes).

mknod

Create special files.

mktemp

Create temporary files.

mv

Rename files.

nice

Modify niceness.

nl

Number lines and write files.

nohup

Immunize to hangups.

nproc

Print the number of processors.

od

Dump files in octal, etc.

paste

Merge lines of files.

pathchk

Check file name portability.

printenv

Print environment variables.

printf

Format and print data.

pr

Paginate or columnate files.

ptx

Produce permuted indexes.

pwd

Print working directory.

readlink

Print referent of a symlink.

rmdir

Remove empty directories.

rm

Remove files.

runcon

Run in specified SELinux CTX.

seq

Print numeric sequences

sha1sum

Print or check SHA-1 digests.

sha2

Print or check SHA-2 digests.

shred

Remove files more securely.

shuf

Shuffling text files.

sleep

Delay for a specified time.

sort

Sort text files.

split

Split into fixed-size pieces.

stat

Report file(system) status.

stdbuf

Modify stdio buffering.

stty

Print/change terminal settings.

sum

Print traditional checksum.

su

Modify user and group ID.

sync

Synchronize memory and disk.

tac

Reverse files.

tail

Output the last part of files.

tee

Redirect to multiple files.

test

File/string tests.

timeout

Run with time limit.

touch

Change file timestamps.

true

Do nothing, successfully.

truncate

Shrink/extend size of a file.

tr

Translate characters.

tsort

Topological sort.

tty

Print terminal name.

uname

Print system information.

unexpand

Convert spaces to tabs.

uniq

Uniquify files.

unlink

Removal via unlink(2).

updatedb

Building the locate database.

uptime

Print uptime and load.

users

Print current user names.

vdir

List directories verbosely.

wc

Line, word, and byte counts.

whoami

Print effective user ID.

who

Print who is logged in.

xargs

Operating on many files.

yes

Print a string indefinitely.

Information

Debian menu

The Debian menu system

Internationalization and character sets

recode

Conversion between character sets and surfaces.

Kernel

grub-install

Install GRUB on your drive

grub-mkconfig

Generate GRUB configuration

grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2

GRUB

The GRand Unified Bootloader

Libraries

RLuserman

The GNU readline library User's Manual.

Miscellaneous

ipc

System V style inter process communication

Network Applications

Wget

The non-interactive network downloader.

Programming & development tools

GDBM

The GNU database manager.

Software libraries

Libc

C library.

Text creation and manipulation

grep

Print lines matching a pattern.

sed

Stream EDitor. This is ./avrdude.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.11 from ./avrdude.texi.

Math

bc

An arbitrary precision calculator language.

Software development

Gforth

A fast interpreter for the Forth language.

Vmgen

Virtual machine interpreter generator

Utilities

Gzip

The gzip command for compressing files.