Projects tagged ‘gnu’


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Bash

   
Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh). Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).

Metrics updated about 15 hours ago

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grep

   
Primary Language: C Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified pattern. By default, grep prints the matching lines.

Metrics updated 05 Oct 08

1070

GNU tar

   
Primary Language: C Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

GNU Tar is an archiver program. It is used to create and manipulate files that are actually collections of many other files; the program provides users with an organized and systematic method of controlling a large amount of data.

Metrics updated 05 Oct 08

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GNU Make

   
Primary Language: C Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.

Metrics updated 28 Sep 08

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GNU Core Utilities

   
Primary Language: C Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU Operating System.

Metrics updated 06 Oct 08

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Wget

   
Primary Language: C/C++ Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

Metrics updated 07 Oct 07

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GNU sed

   
Primary Language: C/C++ Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

Sed (streams editor) isn't really a true text editor or text processor. Instead, it is used to filter text, i.e., it takes text input and performs some operation (or set of operations) on it and outputs the modified text. Sed is typically used ... [More] for extracting part of a file using pattern matching or substituting multiple occurrences of a string within a file. [Less]

Metrics updated 05 May 08

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GNU Emacs

   
Primary Language: Emacs Lisp Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

Metrics updated 04 Oct 08

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GNU Autoconf

   
Primary Language: shell script Licensed as: GNU General Public License 3.0 or later

GNU Autoconf is part of the GNU Build System. GNU Autoconf is a heavily used portability-enabling tool for UNIX-like systems, especially in free software projects. It is a compiler for a domain-specific-language for describing library, header ... [More] , and function dependencies of a project. It generates a shell script that can be run before building a package to customize the build to the system. [Less]

Metrics updated 28 Aug 08

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GNU Automake

   
Primary Language: shell script Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

GNU Automake is a part of the GNU build system, along with GNU Autoconf and GNU Libtool. GNU Automake is a tool to create portable makefiles to manage the building and distribution of source code projects.

Metrics updated 06 Oct 08