Coreutils
Description
The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. Previously these utilities were offered as three individual sets of GNU utilities, Fileutils, Shellutils, and Textutils. Those three have been combined into a single set of utilities called Coreutils.
These are the core utilities which are expected to exist on every node of the infrastructure---the module is available because of advanced functionality of the latest version (e.g., parallel processing by the sort command).
Usage
Upcoming modulesystem change alert!
Due to large number of applications and their versions it is not practical to keep them explicitly listed at our wiki pages. Therefore an upgrade of modulefiles is underway. A feature of this upgrade will be the existence of default module for every application. This default choice does not need version number and it will load some (usually latest) version.
You can test the new version now by adding a line
source /cvmfs/software.metacentrum.cz/modulefiles/5.1.0/loadmodules
to your script before loading a module. Then, you can list all versions of coreutils and load default version of coreutils as
module avail coreutils/ # list available modules module load coreutils # load (default) module
If you wish to keep up to the current system, it is still possible. Simply list all modules by
module avail coreutils
and choose explicit version you want to use.
Documentation
The documentation is available on-line or locally via the man utility (e.g., man sort).