| Bzip2 | Version: 1.0.5-1 |
high-quality block-sorting file compressor - utilities
bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor.
It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available
techniques, whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six
times faster at decompression.
bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting text
compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally
considerably better than that achieved by more conventional
LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM
family of statistical compressors.
The archive file format of bzip2 (.bz2) is incompatible with that of its
predecessor, bzip (.bz).
| Required | SharedUnixLibrary (>= 1.11) |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |
| PSUtils | Version: 1.17-1 |
A collection of PostScript document handling utilities
This collection of utilities is for manipulating PostScript
documents. Page selection and rearrangement are supported, including
arrangement into signatures for booklet printing, and page merging
for n-up printing.
The following programs are included in psutils: epsffit, extractres,
fixdlsrps, fixfmps, fixmacps, fixpsditps, fixpspps, fixscribeps,
fixtpps, fixwfwps, fixwpps, fixwwps, getafm, includeres, psbook,
psmerge, psnup, psresize, psselect, pstops, showchar
Some programs included here (psmerge) behave differently if gs is
available, but all programs work without it.
| Required | SharedUnixLibrary (>= 1.11) |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |
| Zip | Version: 3.0-1 |
Archiver for .zip files
This is InfoZIP's zip program. It produces files that are fully
compatible with the popular PKZIP program; however, the command line
options are not identical. In other words, the end result is the same,
but the methods differ. :-)
| Required | Nothing |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |
| bc | Version: 1.06.95-1 |
The GNU bc arbitrary precision calculator language
GNU bc is an interactive algebraic language with arbitrary precision which
follows the POSIX 1003.2 draft standard, with several extensions including
multi-character variable names, an `else' statement and full Boolean
expressions. GNU bc does not require the separate GNU dc program.
Home page: http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/bc.html
| Required | UnixLib |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |
| coreutils | Version: 6.10-1 |
The GNU core utilities
This package contains the essential basic system utilities.
Specifically, this package includes:
basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir
dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold groups head
hostid id install join link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mv nice nl
nohup od paste pathchk pinky pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir
sha1sum seq shred sleep sort split stat stty sum sync tac tail tee test touch
tr true tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes
| Required | UnixLib |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |
| file | Version: 4.26-1 |
Determines file type using "magic" numbers
File tests each argument in an attempt to classify it. There are three sets of
tests, performed in this order: filesystem tests, magic number tests, and
language tests. The first test that succeeds causes the file type to be
printed.
Starting with version 4, the file command is not much more than a wrapper
around the "magic" library.
| Required | UnixLib |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |
| findutils | Version: 4.4.2-1 |
utilities for finding files--find, xargs
GNU findutils provides utilities to find files meeting specified
criteria and perform various actions on the files which are found.
This package contains 'find' and 'xargs'; however, 'locate' has
been split off into a separate package.
| Required | UnixLib |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |
| grep | Version: 2.5.4-1 |
GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
'grep' is a utility to search for text in files; it can be used from the
command line or in scripts. Even if you don't want to use it, other packages
on your system probably will.
The GNU family of grep utilities may be the "fastest grep in the west".
GNU grep is based on a fast lazy-state deterministic matcher (about
twice as fast as stock Unix egrep) hybridized with a Boyer-Moore-Gosper
search for a fixed string that eliminates impossible text from being
considered by the full regexp matcher without necessarily having to
look at every character. The result is typically many times faster
than Unix grep or egrep. (Regular expressions containing backreferencing
will run more slowly, however.)
| Required | UnixLib |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |
| gzip | Version: 1.3.12-1 |
The GNU compression utility
This is the standard GNU file compression utility, which is also the default
compression tool for Debian. It typically operates on files with names
ending in '.gz'.
This package can also decompress '.Z' files created with 'compress'.
| Required | UnixLib |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |
| p7zip | Version: 4.57dfsg.1-1 |
7zr file archiver with high compression ratio
p7zip is the Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that archives with
very high compression ratios.
p7zip provides:
- /usr/bin/7zr
a standalone minimal version of the 7-zip tool that only handles
7z archives. 7z compression is 30-50% better than ZIP compression.
- /usr/bin/p7zip
a gzip like wrapper around 7zr.
p7zip-full provides 7z and 7za which support more compression formats.
| Required | UnixLib |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |
| tar | Version: 1.22-1 |
GNU version of the tar archiving utility
Tar is a program for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar
format. The function it performs is conceptually similar to cpio, and to
things like PKZIP in the DOS world. It is heavily used by the Debian package
management system, and is useful for performing system backups and exchanging
sets of files with others.
| Required | UnixLib |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |