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Generating the list

If an update to the list of programs is needed the list can be generated in Debian by running this command:

Teemu 16:13, 2005 Feb 16 (UTC)

That's cool, but could you make it not depend on dlocate? Just use dpkg, that way every Debian installation can use it. --maru (talk) contribs 22:42, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

list software containing coreutils

I started to make a list with software that was containing the coreutils and that was removed Maybe the person who did that had a good reason but i think,for several reason that including such list because:

A lot of people are lost with all this GNU and BSD utilities and it is important to know what's where,Some example are attempt to port a BSD or other kernel to others utilities or to change the design of the operating system,some Atempt are famous and clear such as GNU/kfreeBSD or GNU/Solaris but others are unclear such as all the Gentoo BSD where the utilities used depend on kind of BSD(open Net Free) and here the long term goal is to be able to choose between them,A good idea is to present also others utilities or the derived that were made(such as BSD non free derivated utilities)
Know the importance of such uttilities looking at the wide(or not)spread of such utilities and the will to use them with others kernel rather than the others Free(free software) Utilities such as BSD(The solaris case is very different,The system is too much complicated and there are things that are free and others that aren't,and that change over time because of part being render free)

-- 213.189.165.28

The list has been moved to List of GNU Core Utilities commands. There's a link under Capabilities. --Tqdv (talk) 21:38, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I merged the list article back into this article. Reasons: 1) IMO all list articles are stilly and should not exist, 2) better to keep highly related info together rather than separated, 3) this article was rather short so it seems awkward that it has a list article (since people seem to create list articles to make a huge main article not-so-huge) Stevebroshar (talk) 12:13, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Multibyte

It says, "Unfortunately, even a latest forthcoming coreutils version 6.10 does not properly support multibyte encodings." But what is the actual applicable standard here, and is coreutils violating it? Superm401 - Talk 05:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's a defacto standard: Most Linux distributions (and probably all major ones) come with a UTF-8 locales as the default. -- ndemou —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ndemou (talk • contribs) 10:42, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Timeout

I think that command timeout should link to a new page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeout_(Unix) instead of current: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeout_(computing) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zabuch (talk • contribs) 18:03, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Should say why you think something should change. Without some justification the suggestion carries little weight. And without more context it's hard to know what exactly you are talking about. ... I think you mean that the utility 'timeout' is linked to an article about the general concept of timeout; not a Unix command/util. I agree that that link is not good (and surprised it's still like that after 15 years!). But, there is no Timeout (Unix) article or any article for a Unix command/util called timeout. I'm going to follow the lead of List of POSIX commands where timeout has no link. I'm going to remove the link (syntax). Stevebroshar (talk) 12:21, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Categorization of programs

I do not entirely agree with the categorization which was done in [1]. I asked User:Fractal3 to explain. The documentation currently uses a different categorization. --Chealer (talk) 22:16, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Saying that you don't agree with something is not actionable. What do you suggest? ... Do you suggest using the categorization of the documentation that you refer to? But, what documentation do you refer to? And more importantly, why don't you just make the change? The article isn't going to change itself ;) Stevebroshar (talk) 12:24, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maximum Command line Argument limitation

GNU Core Utilities implementation used in multiple Linux distributions will be limited in command line arguments bytes number of pages that are allocated within the kernel for command-line arguments defined at kernel compile time at variable MAX_ARG_PAGES in include/linux/binfmts.h file. For example error on rm command: /bin/rm: Argument list too long. will prompt if command-line argument limit is exceed^[1]

Maybe it should be added this limitation to the article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.146.63.185 (talk) 23:27, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Seems overly detailed for a WP article, IMO. Stevebroshar (talk) 12:07, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6060

[1] ttp://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6060

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