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Archiving

Cpio: Copy-in-copy-out archiver to tape or disk.
Shar utilities: Shell archiver, uuencode/uudecode.

AVR Programming & development tools.

AvrDude: AVR program downloader/uploader.

Basics

Common options: Common options.
Coreutils: Core GNU (file, text, shell) utilities.
Date input formats
Ed: The GNU line editor
File permissions: Access modes.
Finding files: Operating on files matching certain criteria.

C++ libraries

autosprintf: Support for printf format strings in C++.

Development

CVS: Concurrent Versions System
CVS client/server: Describes the client/server protocol used by CVS.
Com_err: A Common Error Description Library for UNIX.
SSIP: Speech Synthesis Interface Protocol.
Speech Dispatcher: Speech Dispatcher.

DOS

Mtools: Mtools: utilities to access DOS disks in Unix.

Editors

JED: Programmers editor.
nano: Small and friendly text editor.

Emacs

Ada mode (emacs22): Emacs mode for editing and compiling Ada code.
Autotype (emacs22): Convenient features for text that you enter frequently in Emacs.
BBDB: The Insidious Big Brother Database.
CC Mode (emacs22): Emacs mode for editing C, C++, Objective-C, Java, Pike, AWK, and CORBA IDL code.
CL (emacs22): Partial Common Lisp support for Emacs Lisp.
Calc (emacs22): Advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool.
Dired-X (emacs22): Dired Extra Features.
ERC (emacs22): Powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.
EUDC (emacs22): An Emacs client for directory servers (LDAP, PH).
Ebrowse (emacs22): A C++ class browser for Emacs.
Ediff (emacs22): A visual interface for comparing and merging programs.
Elisp (emacs22): The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
Emacs (emacs22): The extensible self-documenting text editor.
Emacs FAQ (emacs22): Frequently Asked Questions about Emacs.
Emacs Lisp Intro (emacs22): A simple introduction to Emacs Lisp programming.
Emacs MIME (emacs22): Emacs MIME de/composition library.
Eshell (emacs22): A command shell implemented in Emacs Lisp.
Flymake (emacs22): A universal on-the-fly syntax checker.
Forms (emacs22): Emacs package for editing data bases by filling in forms.
Gnus (emacs22): The newsreader Gnus.
IDLWAVE (emacs22): Major mode and shell for IDL files.
MH-E (emacs22): Emacs interface to the MH mail system.
Mailcrypt: An Emacs/PGP interface.
Message (emacs22): Mail and news composition mode that goes with Gnus.
Newsticker (emacs22): A Newsticker for Emacs.
Org Mode (emacs22): Outline-based notes management and organizer
PCL-CVS (emacs22): Emacs front-end to CVS.
PGG (emacs22): Emacs interface to various PGP implementations.
Rcirc (emacs22): Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
RefTeX (emacs22): Emacs support for LaTeX cross-references and citations.
SC (emacs22): Supercite lets you cite parts of messages you're replying to, in flexible ways.
SES (emacs22): Simple Emacs Spreadsheet
SMTP (emacs22): Emacs library for sending mail via SMTP.
Sieve (emacs22): Managing Sieve scripts in Emacs.
Speedbar (emacs22): File/Tag summarizing utility.
VIP (emacs22): An older VI-emulation for Emacs.
VIPER (emacs22): The newest Emacs VI-emulation mode. (also, A VI Plan for Emacs Rescue or the VI PERil.)
VM: A mail reader.
VM-pcrisis: A personality crisis solver for VM
Widget (emacs22): The "widget" package used by the Emacs Customization facility.
WoMan (emacs22): Browse UN*X Manual Pages "W.O. (without) Man".
jabber.el: Emacs Jabber client

General Commands

Screen: Full-screen window manager.

GNU Emacs

TRAMP (emacs22): Transparent Remote Access, Multiple Protocol GNU Emacs remote file access via rsh and rcp.

GNU Emacs Lisp

Emacs-w3m: An Emacs interface to w3m
Emacs-w3m-ja: An Emacs interface to w3m (Japanese)
URL (emacs22): URL loading package.

GNU Gettext Utilities

autopoint: Copy gettext infrastructure.
envsubst: Expand environment variables.
gettextize: Prepare a package for gettext.
gettext: GNU gettext utilities.
ISO3166: ISO 3166 country codes.
ISO639: ISO 639 language codes.
msgattrib: Select part of a PO file.
msgcat: Combine several PO files.
msgcmp: Compare a PO file and template.
msgcomm: Match two PO files.
msgconv: Convert PO file to encoding.
msgen: Create an English PO file.
msgexec: Process a PO file.
msgfilter: Pipe a PO file through a filter.
msgfmt: Make MO files out of PO files.
msggrep: Select part of a PO file.
msginit: Create a fresh PO file.
msgmerge: Update a PO file from template.
msgunfmt: Uncompile MO file into PO file.
msguniq: Unify duplicates for PO file.
ngettext: Translate a message with plural.
xgettext: Extract strings into a PO file.

GNU Libraries

libgomp-4.4: GNU OpenMP runtime library

GNU LilyPond -- the music typesetter

LilyPond Snippets: Short tricks, tips, and examples.
abc2ly: Importing ABC.
convert-ly: Older LilyPond versions.
etf2ly: Importing Finale.
LilyPond Application Usage: Installing and running applications.
LilyPond Internals Reference: Definitions for tweaking.
lilypond-book: Integrating text and music.
LilyPond: LilyPond Notation Reference.
LilyPond Learning Manual: Start here.
midi2ly: Importing MIDI.
Music Glossary: For non-English users.
musicxml2ly: Importing MusicXML.

GNU Utilities

gpg: OpenPGP encryption and signing tool (v1).

Graphics Utilities

xzgv: A picture viewer for X, with a thumbnail-based file selector.

Individual utilities

aclocal: Generating aclocal.m4.
aot-compile: Compile bytecode to native and generate databases.
arch: Print machine hardware name.
automake: Generating Makefile.in.
base64: Base64 encode/decode data.
basename: Strip directory and suffix.
cat: Concatenate and write files.
chcon: Change SELinux CTX of files.
chgrp: Change file groups.
chmod: Change file permissions.
chown: Change file owners/groups.
chroot: Specify the root directory.
cksum: Print POSIX CRC checksum.
comm: Compare sorted files by line.
cp: Copy files.
csplit: Split by context.
cut: Print selected parts of lines.
cvs: Concurrent Versions System
date: Print/set system date and time.
dd: Copy and convert a file.
df: Report file system disk usage.
dir: List directories briefly.
dircolors: Color setup for ls.
dirname: Strip non-directory suffix.
du: Report on disk usage.
echo: Print a line of text.
env: Modify the environment.
expand: Convert tabs to spaces.
expr: Evaluate expressions.
factor: Print prime factors
false: Do nothing, unsuccessfully.
fastjar: An archive tool for Java archives
find: Finding and acting on files.
fmt: Reformat paragraph text.
fold: Wrap long input lines.
gc-analyze: Analyze Garbage Collector (GC) memory dumps.
gcj-dbtool: Tool for manipulating class file databases.
gij: GNU interpreter for Java bytecode
grepjar: Search files in a jar file for a pattern
grmic: Generate stubs for Remote Method Invocation.
groups: Print group names a user is in.
gzip: Compress files.
head: Output the first part of files.
hostid: Print numeric host identifier.
hostname: Print or set system name.
id: Print user identity.
install: Copy and change attributes.
jcf-dump: Print information about Java class files
join: Join lines on a common field.
jv-convert: Convert file from one encoding to another
kill: Send a signal to processes.
link: Make hard links between files.
ln: Make links between files.
locate: Finding files in a database.
logname: Print current login name.
ls: List directory contents.
mail-files: Send files to remote site.
mailshar: Make and send a shell archive.
md5sum: Print or check MD5 digests.
mkdir: Create directories.
mkfifo: Create FIFOs (named pipes).
mknod: Create special files.
mv: Rename files.
nice: Modify niceness.
nl: Number lines and write files.
nohup: Immunize to hangups.
od: Dump files in octal, etc.
paste: Merge lines of files.
pathchk: Check file name portability.
pr: Paginate or columnate files.
printenv: Print environment variables.
printf: Format and print data.
ptx: Produce permuted indexes.
pwd: Print working directory.
readlink: Print referent of a symlink.
rebuild-gcj-db: Merge the per-solib databases made by aot-compile into one system-wide database.
rm: Remove files.
rmdir: Remove empty directories.
runcon: Run in specified SELinux CTX.
seq: Print numeric sequences
sha1sum: Print or check SHA-1 digests.
sha2: Print or check SHA-2 digests.
shar: Make a shell archive.
shred: Remove files more securely.
shuf: Shuffling text files.
sleep: Delay for a specified time.
sort: Sort text files.
split: Split into fixed-size pieces.
stat: Report file(system) status.
stty: Print/change terminal settings.
su: Modify user and group ID.
sum: Print traditional checksum.
sync: Synchronize memory and disk.
tac: Reverse files.
tail: Output the last part of files.
tee: Redirect to multiple files.
test: File/string tests.
time: Run programs and summarize system resource usage.
timeout: Run with time limit.
touch: Change file timestamps.
tr: Translate characters.
true: Do nothing, successfully.
truncate: Shrink/extend size of a file.
tsort: Topological sort.
tty: Print terminal name.
uname: Print system information.
unexpand: Convert spaces to tabs.
uniq: Uniquify files.
unlink: Removal via unlink(2).
unshar: Explode a shell archive.
updatedb: Building the locate database.
uptime: Print uptime and load.
users: Print current user names.
uudecode: Restore file from 7-bits.
uuencode: Force binary file to 7-bits.
vdir: List directories verbosely.
wc: Line, word, and byte counts.
who: Print who is logged in.
whoami: Print effective user ID.
xargs: Operating on many files.
yes: Print a string indefinitely.

Internationalization and character sets

recode: Conversion between character sets and surfaces.

Kernel

grub-install: Install GRUB on your drive
grub-terminfo: Generate a terminfo command from a terminfo name
GRUB: The GRand Unified Bootloader

Libraries

AA-lib: An ASCII-art graphics library
History: The GNU history library API.
RLuserman: The GNU readline library User's Manual.
Readline: The GNU readline library API.

LilyPond

GNU LilyPond program-reference: LilyPond program-reference.
Glossary: Glossary of music terms.

Message User Agent

Mew: Messaging in the Emacs World.
Mew-J: Messaging in the Emacs World.

Miscellaneous

dc: Arbitrary precision RPN "Desktop Calculator".
ipc: System V style inter process communication
wdiff: Word difference finder.

Printing Tools

PreScript: Input language for a2ps
a2ps: PostScript Generating Utility
card: Print Reference Cards
fixnt: Fixing Microsoft NT PostScript Files
fixps: Fixing Some Ill Designed PostScript Files
ogonkify: Ogonkify
pdiff: Produce Pretty Comparison of Files
psmandup: Printing Duplex on Simplex Printers
psset: Inserting calls to setpagedevice

Programming

MikMod: MikMod Sound Library.
fastjar: GNU jar utilities

Programming & development tools.

DDD: The Data Display Debugger.
DDD-Themes: Writing DDD Themes.

Software development

Automake: Making GNU standards-compliant Makefiles.
bison: GNU parser generator (Yacc replacement).
g++-4.4: The GNU C++ compiler.
gcc-4.4: The GNU Compiler Collection.
gccint-4.4: Internals of the GNU Compiler Collection.
gcj-4.4: Ahead-of-time compiler for the Java language

Sound

SSIP: Speech Synthesis Interface Protocol.
Say for Speech Dispatcher: Say.
Speech Dispatcher: Speech Dispatcher.

System Utilities

cfengine Reference: Cfengine is a language based tool specifically designed for configuring and maintaining BSD and System-5-like operating systems attached to a TCP/IP network.
cfengine Tutorial: Cfengine is a language based tool specifically designed for configuring and maintaining BSD and System-5-like operating systems attached to a TCP/IP network.

TeX

DVI-to-Postscript: Translating TeX DVI files to PostScript.
afm2tfm: Making Type 1 fonts available to TeX.
dvips: DVI-to-PostScript translator.
Kpathsea: File lookup along search paths.
kpsewhich: TeX file searching.
mktexmf: MF source generation.
mktexpk: PK bitmap generation.
mktextex: TeX source generation.
mktextfm: TeX font metric generation.
mktexlsr: Update ls-R.
LaTeX2e: LaTeXe help 1.6.
TeX Directories: A directory structure for TeX files.
afm2tfm: Making Type 1 fonts available to TeX.
Web2c: TeX, Metafont, and companion programs.
bibtex: Maintaining bibliographies.
dmp: Troff->MPX (MetaPost pictures).
dvicopy: Virtual font expansion
dvitomp: DVI to MPX (MetaPost pictures).
dvitype: DVI to human-readable text.
gftodvi: Generic font proofsheets.
gftopk: Generic to packed fonts.
gftype: GF to human-readable text.
makempx: MetaPost label typesetting.
mf: Creating typeface families.
mft: Prettyprinting Metafont source.
mltex: Multi-lingual TeX.
mpost: Creating technical diagrams.
mpto: MetaPost label extraction.
newer: Compare modification times.
patgen: Creating hyphenation patterns.
pktogf: Packed to generic fonts.
pktype: PK to human-readable text.
pltotf: Property list to TFM.
pooltype: Display WEB pool files.
tangle: WEB to Pascal.
tex: Typesetting.
tftopl: TFM -> property list.
vftovp: Virtual font -> virtual pl.
vptovf: Virtual pl -> virtual font.
weave: WEB to TeX.
dvips: DVI-to-PostScript translator.
dvitomp: DVI to MPX (MetaPost pictures).
dvitype: DVI to human-readable text.
gftodvi: Generic font proofsheets.
gftopk: Generic to packed fonts.
gftype: GF to human-readable text.
kpsewhich: TeX file searching.
makempx: MetaPost label typesetting.
mft: Prettyprinting Metafont source.
mf: Creating typeface families.
mktexlsr: Update ls-R.
mktexmf: MF source generation.
mktexpk: PK bitmap generation.
mktextex: TeX source generation.
mktextfm: TeX font metric generation.
mltex: Multi-lingual TeX.
mpost: Creating technical diagrams.
mpto: MetaPost label extraction.
newer: Compare modification times.
patgen: Creating hyphenation patterns.
pktogf: Packed to generic fonts.
pktype: PK to human-readable text.
pltotf: Property list to TFM.
pooltype: Display WEB pool files.
tangle: WEB to Pascal.
tex: Typesetting.
tftopl: TFM -> property list.
vftovp: Virtual font -> virtual pl.
vptovf: Virtual pl -> virtual font.
weave: WEB to TeX.
Web2c: TeX, Metafont, and companion programs.

Texinfo documentation system

Eplain: Expanding on plain Tex.
Info (emacs22): How to use the documentation browsing system.

Text creation and manipulation

M4: A powerful macro processor.
grep: Print lines matching a pattern.
sed: Stream EDitor.

Typesetting

Groff: The GNU troff document formatting system.

Utilities

Enscript: GNU Enscript
Gzip: The gzip command for compressing files.

Viewers

gv: The GNU PostScript and PDF viewer.

Network Applications

Wget: The non-interactive network downloader.

World Wide Web

URL (emacs22): URL loading package

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