textutils is the GNU implementation of some standard UNIX text oriented utilities. These utilities include:
textutils-2.0: description + notes
- cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output
- cksum - checksum and count the bytes in a file
- comm - compare two sorted files line by line
- csplit - split a file into sections determined by context lines
- cut - remove sections from each line of files
- expand - convert tabs to spaces
- fmt - simple optimal text formatter
- fold - wrap each input line to fit in specified width
- head - output the first part of files
- join - join lines of two files on a common field
- md5sum - compute and check MD5 message digest
- nl - number lines of files
- od - dump files in octal and other formats
- paste - merge lines of files
- ptx - produce a permuted index of file contents
- pr - convert text files for printing
- sort - sort lines of text files
- split - split a file into pieces
- sum - checksum and count the blocks in a file
- tac - concatenate and print files in reverse
- tail - output the last part of files
- tr - translate or delete characters
- tsort - perform topological sort
- unexpand - convert spaces to tabs
- uniq - remove duplicate lines from a sorted file
- wc - print the number of bytes, words, and lines in files
Most of these programs have significant advantages over their Unix counterparts, such as greater speed, additional options, and fewer arbitrary limits. See the man pages that come with the distribution for details.
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