Linux System - Table 12 > Packages - Table 1 & 2 > coreutils

\"The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulationutilities of the GNU operating system. These are the core utilitieswhich are expected to exist on every operating system. Previously theseutilities were offered as three individual sets of GNU utilities,fileutils, shellutils, and textutils. Those three have been combinedinto a single set of utilities called the coreutils.\"