Projects tagged ‘gnu’

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 ... [More] csh). Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2). [Less]

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

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.

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

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

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 ... [More] scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc. [Less]

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 ... [More] outputs the modified text. Sed is typically used for extracting part of a file using pattern matching or substituting multiple occurrences of a string within a file. [Less]

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

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 ... [More] domain-specific-language for describing library, header, 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]

The GNU C Library, glibc, provides the standard C library interface for GNU/Linux and other Free Software operating systems.