Tools Reference
This section provides an overview of various useful standard Unix and Gentoo tools and utilities that may be used within ebuilds or when working with ebuilds.
Contents
- bash -- Standard Shell
- cat -- File Concatenation
- cut -- Column Concatenation
- diff and patch -- File Differences
- echo -- Print Strings
- ekeyword -- Keywording
- false and true -- Generating Return Codes
- find -- Finding Files
- grep -- Text Filtering
- head and tail -- Line Extraction
- sed -- Stream Editor
- sort -- Sorting Text
- tr -- Character Translation
- uniq -- Filtering Duplicates