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GNU Core Utilities

The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, needed for Unix-like operating systems. It is a combination of a number of earlier packages, including textutils, shellutils, and fileutils, along with...

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Get some environment variables in a sorted order with these commands: env | sort | grep "^XDG_"

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Print name, birth date, last access date, last modification date, last status change in human-readable format with ns resolution, one per line: stat --printf="%n\n%w\n%x\n%y\n%z\n"

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What is GNU Core Utilities?

The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, needed for Unix-like operating systems. It is a combination of a number of earlier packages, including textutils, shellutils, and fileutils, along with some other miscellaneous utilities.