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.

bash -- Standard Shell
cat -- File Concatenation
cut -- Column Concatenation
diff and patch -- File Differences
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

Tools Reference

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