Gentoo Development Guide
Tools Reference
This section provides an overview of various useful standard Unix and Gentoo tools and utilities that may be used within ebuilds or when working with ebuilds.
Contents
- bash -- Standard Shell
- cat -- File Concatenation
- cut -- Column Concatenation
- diff and patch -- File Differences
- echangelog -- ChangeLog Generation
- echo -- Print Strings
- ekeyword -- Keywording
- false and true -- Generating Return Codes
- find -- Finding Files
- grep -- Text Filtering
- head-and-tail -- Line Extraction
- sed -- Stream Editor
- sort -- Sorting Text
- tr -- Character Translation
- uniq -- Filtering Duplicates
