Note:
Some of the links in this file point to online documents which require additional
installation.
A collection of standard UNIX and BSD utilities that deal with text:
cat cksum comm csplit cut expand fmt fold head join md5sum nl od paste pr
sort split sum tac tail tr unexpand uniq version wc The textutils are intended to be POSIX.2 compliant (with BSD and other extensions), like the rest of the GNU system. They are almost there, but a few incompatibilities remain.
The main reasons I use it are expand/unexpand to convert tabs to spaces and vice versa, and the fact it contains a POSIX compliant tr which is far friendlier than the standard SYSV version.
Like shellutils and fileutils, POSIX compliance and portability and availability on virtually every UNIX platform are good reasons to use it.
Also, most of these programs have significant advantages over their traditional Unix counterparts, such as greater speed, additional options, and fewer arbitrary limits
See the man pages for further details.
GNU packages are distributed under the FSF (Free Software Foundation) "Copyleft" which includes the GPL (GNU public license) and the Library GPL.
The GNU textutils were written and enhanced over the years by scores of people on the net. Suggestions and bug reports for these programs can be mailed to:
bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.
Builder Notice(s):
Built and packaged for SGI by Ariel Faigon who is afraid emails for support would have to be silently ignored. Patches and constructive suggestions for improvement are welcome.
All of the subsystems for this product can be installed using IRIX. You do not need to use the miniroot. Refer to the Software Installation Administrator's Guide for complete installation instructions.
This software is compatible with IRIX 5.3 and IRIX 6.x.