1 These are the GNU text file (actually, file contents) processing
2 utilities. Most of these programs have significant advantages over
3 their Unix counterparts, such as greater speed, additional options,
4 and fewer arbitrary limits.
6 The programs that can be built with this package are: cat, cksum, comm,
7 csplit, cut, expand, fmt, fold, head, join, md5sum, nl, od, paste, pr,
8 ptx, sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, tsort, unexpand, uniq, and wc.
10 See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release.
12 See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
16 Some Cray C compilers lack support for a 32-bit arithmetic type.
17 Since gettext requires such a type, you should use the --disable-nls
18 option when invoking configure on such systems.
20 The textutils are intended to be POSIX.2 compliant (with BSD and other
21 extensions), like the rest of the GNU system. They are almost there,
22 but a few incompatibilities remain.
24 Note that the man pages are now automatically generated from templates
25 and from the --help usage message. Patches to the template files (man/*.x)
26 are welcome. However, the authoritative documentation is in texinfo form
29 These programs all recognize the `--version' option. When reporting
30 bugs, please include in the subject line both the package name/version
31 and the name of the program for which you found a problem.
33 For general documentation on the coding and usage standards
34 this distribution follows, see the GNU standards document
35 http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards.html, and the documentation
36 for automake and autoconf:
37 http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html,
38 http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/automake.html.
40 Mail suggestions and bug reports for these programs to
41 bug-textutils@gnu.org.