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Development status
  
Active

Operating system
  
Linux

Written in
  
C and Python

Stable release
  
2.29 / 8 November 2016; 4 months ago (2016-11-08)

Repository
  
https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux, git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git

Available in
  
27 languages, 8 full translations

util-linux is a standard package of the Linux kernel. A fork, util-linux-ng—with ng meaning "next generation"—was created when development stalled, but as of January 2011 has been renamed back to util-linux, and is the official version of the package.

Contents

It includes the following utilities:

Utilities formerly included, but removed as of 1 July 2015:

  • arch
  • chkdupexe
  • clock
  • cytune
  • ddate (removed from default build before being removed altogether)
  • elvtune
  • fastboot
  • fasthalt
  • halt
  • initctl
  • ramsize (formerly a symlink to rdev)
  • rdev
  • reboot
  • rootflags (formerly a symlink to rdev)
  • shutdown
  • simpleinit
  • vidmode (formerly a symlink to rdev)

    • References

    Util-linux Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA