COREUTILS(1)

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version 9.11 · 8 versions
, in alpine 3.24

✨ COREUTILS(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the coreutils man page 💅 this is the User Commands one, and honestly it's giving "one binary to rule them all" energy 👑

🌸 NAME

coreutils — a single binary that runs all the coreutils programs 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS

coreutils --coreutils-prog=PROGRAM_NAME [PARAMETERS]...

💖 DESCRIPTION

So basically: you run the built-in program called PROGRAM_NAME, and you hand it whatever PARAMETERS you want. That's the whole vibe ✨

  • --help — prints this help text and then dips out immediately 👋
  • --version — spits out the version info and bounces, same energy 💫

👑 Built-in programs:

okay this list is LONG and it ate, no cap. Every single one of these lives inside this binary:

[ b2sum base32 base64 basename basenc cat chgrp chmod chown
chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname
du echo expand expr factor false fold ginstall groups head hostid
id join link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mktemp mv
nice nl nohup nproc numfmt od paste pathchk pinky pr printenv
printf ptx pwd readlink realpath rm rmdir seq sha1sum sha224sum
sha256sum sha384sum shred shuf sleep sort split stat stdbuf stty
sum sync tac tail tee test timeout touch tr true truncate tsort
tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes

like, ls? in here. cat? in here. rm? bestie, rm is in here too, be careful 🙈 yes? iconic, it's in here. Literally the whole friend group 🫶

Want the deets on just one of them? Run: coreutils --coreutils-prog=PROGRAM_NAME --help and it'll spill the tea for that specific program 💅

⭐ AUTHOR

Written by Alex Deymo. Respect the main character who built this 👏

🍓 REPORTING BUGS

Found a bug? Don't suffer in silence, tell the team:

Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. (fr fr, no warranty, read it and weep 😭)

💜 SEE ALSO

and that's the whole page, bestie! 🌈 This lil masterpiece is GNU coreutils 9.11, dated May 2026 🎀 go forth and run all the programs, you've got this 🦋✨💖

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