Open System Services Management and Operations Guide (G06.30+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

The OSS Core Utilities comprises the following Open Source software:
• On NonStop systems running J06.14 or later J-series RVUs or H06.25 or later H-series RVUs,
the following Open Source software is provided:
◦ GNU Core Utilities (Coreutils) – see http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/.
◦ GNU compression and archival tools:
bzip2 – see http://bzip.org/.–
– gzip – see http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/.
– tar – see http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/.
◦ GNU BASH (Bourne-Again SHell) shell – see http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/.
◦ Vim (Vi IMproved) text editor – see http://www.vim.org/ for more information.
• On NonStop systems running J06.16 or later J-series RVUs or H06.27 or later H-series RVUs,
the following additional Open Source software is provided:
◦ GNU Diffutils, consisting of cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff – see http://www.gnu.org/
software/diffutils/.
◦ GNU Troff (Groff) utilities – see http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/.
◦ GNU Make utility – see http://www.gnu.org/software/make/.
◦ GNU Patch utility – see http://www.gnu.org/software/patch/.
◦ Xinetd (extended Internet daemon), a super-server daemon – see http://xinetd.org/.
◦ Prngd, a pseudo random number generator daemon – see http://prngd.sourceforge.net/.
• On NonStop systems running J06.17 or later J-series RVUs or H06.28 or later H-series RVUs,
the following additional Open Source software is provided:
◦ GNU Findutils, consisting of find, locate, updatedb, and xargs – see http://
www.gnu.org/software/findutils/.
◦ GNU Grep utility – see http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/.
For more details of the OSS Core Utilities, see the OSS Core Utilities User Commands appendix
in the Open System Services User's Guide.
Executing OSS Core Utilities Commands
Commands such as ls, cp, and rm are present in both the OSS Utilities product (T8626) and the
OSS Core Utilities product (T1202). The OSS Core Utilities commands are located in the /usr/
coreutils/bin directory. To use these commands, you must either provide the full path to the
command or include the /usr/coreutils/bin directory in the PATH environment variable. To
specify the OSS Core Utilities as the default commands, the /usr/coreutils/bin directory
must precede the /bin directory in the PATH environment variable, as in the following example:
export PATH=/usr/coreutils/bin:/bin:/bin/unsupported:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb
Viewing OSS Core Utilities Reference Pages
Reference pages for commands such as ls, cp, and rm are present in both the OSS Utilities
product (T8626) and the OSS Core Utilities product (T1202). To view the OSS Core Utilities
reference pages, the /usr/coreutils/share/man directory must be added to the MANPATH
environment variable. To specify the OSS Core Utilities reference pages as the default, the /usr/
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