FACTOR(1)

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✨ FACTOR(1) ✨ — the factor girlies' manual 💅

okay so bestie, this is a User Command, and it lives in the GNU coreutils cinematic universe 🫶

🎀 NAME 🎀

factor — factor numbers. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic honestly 🌸

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

factor [OPTION] [NUMBER]...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, factor prints the prime factors of each integer NUMBER you hand it. every single one you list. no cap 💅

and if you don't give it any NUMBER on the command line? bestie it's not gonna be dramatic about it, it just reads them from standard input instead 🧚

  • -h, --exponents — prints repeated factors in the form p^e, unless e is 1 (in which case it stays a plain p, because why be extra about a lonely exponent) ✨
  • --help — display this help and exit. the classic. the moment. 👑
  • --version — output version information and exit. slay 🎀

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

Written by Paul Rubin, Torbjorn Granlund, and Niels Moller. legends, fr fr 💜

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? not the vibe, but let's handle it:

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Packaged by Ubuntu (9.10-1ubuntu2) 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. (like, none. zero. do not come for us 💀)

and that's the whole page bestie 💖 this was GNU coreutils 9.10, dated August 2026, filed under FACTOR(1) — mwah, go factor something gorgeous 🦋✨💅

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