Linux Utilities (Cont'd)

• In general where Linux provides an alternative functionality to that in the Single UNIX specification, the standard version is not provided

  • Printer subsystem (lp vs lpr)
  • Compress/uncompress vs gzip/gunzip
  • SCCS utilities vs RCS

• See http://www.linuxbase.org/cu for a more detailed description of known differences with the utilities

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