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> What, exactly, are these:
Most are documented at http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/
> diff-2.7.1
diff produces the difference between two text files, in a format that can be
used to patch the old file later on.
> gawk-3.0.3
GNU awk. Awk is a text processing utility, best suited for columnar data.
> groff-1.10
GNU roff, for formatting man pages.
> idutils-3.2
cross referencing utilities, for searching and stuff.
> ispell-3.1.20
interactive spell checker.
> less-332
like more, but can page up and down.
> m4-1.4
m4 is a macro preprocessor for text files.
> perl-5.005_02
perl is, well, perl. http://www.perl.org/
> sh-utils-1.12
shell utilities, like true, sleep, test, uname, date. Used for shell scripts
a lot, hence the name.
> textutils-1.22
text utilities, like cat, cut, head, tail, sort.
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