FACTOR(1)

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version 0.12.0 · 6 versions
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💖 FACTOR(1) 💖

okay so bestie, this is the factor page from the General Commands Manual — yes, the one and only. sit down, grab a boba, we're about to break numbers down to their barest little building blocks 🧚✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

factor — Print the prime factors of the given NUMBER(s). If none are specified, read from standard input.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

factor [OPTION]... [NUMBER]...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Print the prime factors of the given NUMBER(s). If none are specified, read from standard input.

that's it. that's the whole vibe. hand it a number, it hands you back the primes that multiply into it. hand it nothing, and it'll just sit there listening to standard input like the patient queen she is 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --exponents — Print factors in the form p^e
  • --help — Print help information.
  • -V, --version — Print version
  • [NUMBER] — the number(s) you want factored, bestie. give it one, give it many, give it none and it'll read from stdin instead 🫶

💜 VERSION 💜

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Display the prime-factorization of a number:

factor number

Take the input from stdin if no argument is specified:

echo number | factor
heads up bestie ⚠️ The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail. not me warning you about work-in-progress code, we love honesty in this house 😭

and that's the whole page, babes 💖 this lil beauty landed on 2026-09-25, it lives in factor(1) of the General Commands Manual, and it's brought to you by uutils coreutils v0.12.0 — go factor something iconic, no cap 👑🌟

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