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class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shell_script" title="Shell script">shell script</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Miscellaneous utilities</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data">2007<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>: <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Version_3" title="GNU General Public License">GPL-3.0-or-later</a><br />2002<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>: <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GPL-2.0-or-later</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/">www<wbr />.gnu<wbr />.org<wbr />/software<wbr />/coreutils<wbr />/</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>GNU Core Utilities</b> or <b>coreutils</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Package_manager" title="Package manager">package</a> of <a href="/wiki/GNU" title="GNU">GNU</a> <a href="/wiki/Software" title="Software">software</a> containing implementations for many of the basic tools, such as <a href="/wiki/Cat_(Unix)" title="Cat (Unix)">cat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ls" title="Ls">ls</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rm_(Unix)" title="Rm (Unix)">rm</a>, which are used on <a href="/wiki/Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a> <a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating systems</a>. </p><p>In September 2002, the <i>GNU coreutils</i> were created by merging the earlier packages <i>textutils</i>, <i>shellutils</i>, and <i>fileutils</i>, along with some other miscellaneous utilities.<sup id="cite_ref-merge_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-merge-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2007, the license of the GNU coreutils was updated from <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Version_2" title="GNU General Public License">GPL-2.0-or-later</a> to <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Version_3" title="GNU General Public License">GPL-3.0-or-later</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The GNU core utilities support <a href="/wiki/Command-line_interface#Option_conventions_in_Unix-like_systems" title="Command-line interface">long options</a> as <a href="/wiki/Command-line_interface#Arguments" title="Command-line interface">parameters</a> to the commands, as well as the relaxed convention allowing options even after the regular arguments (unless the <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">POSIXLY_CORRECT</span> environment variable is set). 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For example, <a href="/wiki/BusyBox" title="BusyBox">BusyBox</a> which is licensed under <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GPL-2.0-only</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Toybox" title="Toybox">Toybox</a> which is licensed under <a href="/wiki/BSD_licenses" title="BSD licenses">0BSD</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=GNU_Core_Utilities&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1990, David MacKenzie announced <i>GNU fileutils</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1991, MacKenzie announced <i>GNU shellutils</i> and <i>GNU textutils</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" 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