GNU fileutils

A set of file utilities

for version 4.1, 23 April 2001

• Introduction
• Common options
  • Backup options
  • Block size
  • Target directory
  • Trailing slashes
• File permissions
  • Structure of File Permissions
  • Symbolic Modes
    • Setting Permissions
    • Copying Existing Permissions
    • Changing Special Permissions
    • Conditional Executability
    • Making Multiple Changes
    • The Umask and Protection
  • Numeric Modes
• Date input formats
  • General date syntax
  • Calendar date items
  • Time of day items
  • Time zone items
  • Day of week items
  • Relative items in date strings
  • Pure numbers in date strings
  • Authors of getdate
• Directory listing
  • ls: List directory contents
    • Which files are listed
    • What information is listed
    • Sorting the output
    • More details about version sort
    • General output formatting
    • Formatting the file names
  • dir: Briefly list directory contents
  • vdir: Verbosely list directory contents
  • dircolors: Color setup for ls
• Basic operations
  • cp: Copy files and directories
  • dd: Convert and copy a file
  • install: Copy files and set attributes
  • mv: Move (rename) files
  • rm: Remove files or directories
  • shred: Remove files more securely
• Special file types
  • ln: Make links between files
  • mkdir: Make directories
  • mkfifo: Make FIFOs (named pipes)
  • mknod: Make block or character special files
  • rmdir: Remove empty directories
• Changing file attributes
  • chown: Change file owner and group
  • chgrp: Change group ownership
  • chmod: Change access permissions
  • touch: Change file timestamps
• Disk usage
  • df: Report filesystem disk space usage
  • du: Estimate file space usage
  • sync: Synchronize data on disk with memory
• Index

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