Miscellaneous

Tools that don’t fit cleanly into another category — calendars, file manipulation, UUID generation, locking utilities, and more.

Implemented

• cal — display a calendar
• copyfilerange — copy byte ranges between files
• getopt — parse command options (enhanced)
• kill — terminate a process
• logger — enter messages into the system log
• look — display lines beginning with a given string
• lslocks — list local system locks
• mcookie — generate magic cookies for xauth
• namei — follow a pathname until a terminal point is found
• rename — rename files by replacing occurrences of a string in their filenames
• uuidgen — create a new UUID value
• uuidparse — parse unique identifiers
• waitpid — wait for arbitrary processes to exit
• whereis — locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command

Planned

blkid, enosys, exch, fincore, findfs, findmnt, getino, hardlink, lastlog2, lsblk, lsclocks, uuidd, wipefs.