coreutils: Introduction

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1 1 Introduction
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1 This manual is a work in progress: many sections make no attempt to
1 explain basic concepts in a way suitable for novices.  Thus, if you are
1 interested, please get involved in improving this manual.  The entire
1 GNU community will benefit.
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1    The GNU utilities documented here are mostly compatible with the
1 POSIX standard.
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1    Please report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.  Include the version
1 number, machine architecture, input files, and any other information
1 needed to reproduce the bug: your input, what you expected, what you
1 got, and why it is wrong.
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1    If you have a problem with ‘sort’ or ‘date’, try using the ‘--debug’
1 option, as it can can often help find and fix problems without having to
1 wait for an answer to a bug report.  If the debug output does not
1 suffice to fix the problem on your own, please compress and attach it to
1 the rest of your bug report.
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1    Although diffs are welcome, please include a description of the
11 problem as well, since this is sometimes difficult to infer.  ⇒
 (gcc)Bugs.
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1    This manual was originally derived from the Unix man pages in the
1 distributions, which were written by David MacKenzie and updated by Jim
1 Meyering.  What you are reading now is the authoritative documentation
1 for these utilities; the man pages are no longer being maintained.  The
1 original ‘fmt’ man page was written by Ross Paterson.  François Pinard
1 did the initial conversion to Texinfo format.  Karl Berry did the
1 indexing, some reorganization, and editing of the results.  Brian
1 Youmans of the Free Software Foundation office staff combined the
1 manuals for textutils, fileutils, and sh-utils to produce the present
1 omnibus manual.  Richard Stallman contributed his usual invaluable
1 insights to the overall process.
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