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Foundations: Core Utilities

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Foundations: Core Utilities

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- [Instructor] One of the reasons that Linux is so widely used is that regardless of distro, and to a large degree, regardless of which decade you started learning about Linux in, there's a huge number of common tasks that work the same here and there, now and then. This is enabled by a set of tools with a long history, many dating back decades to Unix Systems before Linux even existed. But, these tools we use across these distros aren't part of Linux, they're from a separate package called GNU coreutils. And, I'd like to think of the coreutils as a trusty tool belt where the tools I use every day are right at my fingertips. The command to copy or move a file, for example, or to display a file's contents, to modify permission modes and lots of other daily tasks are the same on Debian, Fedora, Arch, Raspbian, OpenSUSE and pretty much every other Linux distribution. In some cases, distros choose to use a replacement for…

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