coreutils

Basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system.

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: [email protected]

Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/PKG as a depdendency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/coreutils)

Runtime Depdendency

pkg_deps=(core/coreutils)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/coreutils

» Installing core/coreutils

☁ Determining latest version of core/coreutils in the 'stable' channel

☛ Verifying core/coreutils/8.30/20200305231640

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✓ Installed core/coreutils/8.30/20200305231640

★ Install of core/coreutils/8.30/20200305231640 complete with 1 new packages installed.

hab pkg binlink core/coreutils

» Binlinking b2sum from core/coreutils into /bin

★ Binlinked b2sum from core/coreutils/8.30/20200305231640 to /bin/b2sum

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Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal:

/bin/ls --help or ls --help

Usage: /bin/ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
  -a, --all                  do not ignore entries starting with .
  -A, --almost-all           do not list implied . and ..
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