List of GNU Core Utilities commands

File utilities

• chcon (Change file security context)
• chgrp (Change group ownership)
• chown (Change file owner and group)
• chmod (Change file mode bits)
• cp (Copy files and directories)
• dd (Convert and copy a file)
• df (Report file system disk space usage)
• dir (List directory contents)
• dircolors (Color setup for ls)
• install (Copy files and set attributes)
• ln (Make links between files)
• ls (List directory contents)
• mkdir (Make directories)
• mkfifo (Make FIFOs (named pipes))
• mknod (Make block or character special files)
• mktemp (Create a temporary file or directory)
• mv (Move (rename) files)
• realpath (Print the resolved path)
• rm (Remove files or directories)
• rmdir (Remove empty directories)
• shred (Overwrite a file to hide it's contents, and optionally delete it)
• sync (Synchronize cached writes to persistent storage)
• touch (Change file timestamps)
• truncate (Shrink or extend the size of a file to the specified size)
• vdir (List directory contents)

Text utilities

• b2sum (Compute and check BLAKE2 message digest)
• base32 (Base32 encode/decode data and print to standard output)
• base64 (Base64 encode/decode data and print to standard output)
• cat (Concatenate files and print on the standard output)
• cksum (Checksum and count the bytes in a file)
• comm (Compare two sorted files line by line)
• csplit (Split a file into sections determined by context lines)
• cut (Remove sections from each line of files)
• expand (Convert tabs to spaces)
• fmt (Simple optimal text formatter)
• fold (Wrap each input line to fit in specified width)
• head (Output the first part of files)
• join (Join lines of two files on a common field)
• md5sum (Compute and check MD5 message digest)
• nl (Number lines of files)
• numfmt (Convert numbers from/to human-readable strings)
• od (Dump files in octal and other formats)
• paste (Merge lines of files)
• ptx (Produce a permuted index of file contents)
• pr (Convert text files for printing)
• sha1sum (Compute and check SHA1 message digest)
• shuf (Generate random permutations)
• sort (Sort lines of text files)
• split (Split a file into pieces)
• sum (Checksum and count the blocks in a file)
• tac (Concatenate and print files in reverse)
• tail (Output the last part of files)
• tr (Translate or delete characters)
• tsort (Perform topological sort)
• unexpand (Convert spaces to tabs)
• uniq (Report or omit repeated lines)
• wc (Print newline, word, and byte counts for each file)

Shell utilities

• arch (Prints machine hardware name (same as uname -m))
• basename (Strip directory and suffix from filenames)
• chroot (Run command or interactive shell with special root directory)
• date (Print or set the system date and time)
• dirname (Strip last component from file name)
• du (Estimate file space usage)
• echo (Display a line of text)
• env (Run a program in a modified environment)
• expr (Evaluate expressions)
• factor (Factor numbers)
• false (Do nothing, unsuccessfully)
• groups (Display current group names)
• hostid (Print the numeric identifier for the current host)
• id (Print real and effective user and group ID's)
• link (Call the link function to create a link to a file)
• logname (Print user's login name)
• nice (Run a program with modified scheduling priority)
• nohup (Run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty)
• nproc (Print the number of processing units available)
• pathchk (Check whether file names are valid or portable)
• pinky (Lightweight finger)
• printenv (Print all or part of environment)
• printf (Format and print data)
• pwd (Print name of current/working directory)
• readlink (Print resolved symbolic links or canonical file names)
• runcon (Run command with specified security context)
• seq (Print a sequence of numbers)
• sleep (Delay for a specified amount of time)
• stat (Display file or file system status)
• stdbuf (Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for it's standard streams)
• stty (Change and print terminal line settings)
• tee (Read from standard input and write to standard output and files)
• test (Check file types and compare values)
• timeout (Run a command with a time limit)
• true (Do nothing, successfully)
• tty (Print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input)
• uname (Print system information)
• unlink (Call the unlink function to remove the specified file)
• uptime (Tell how long the system has been running)
• users (Print the user names of users currently logged in to the current host)
• who (Show who is logged on)
• whoami (Print effective userid)
• yes (Output a string repeatedly until killed)