HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 185)

D OSS Core Utilities User Commands
The OSS Utilities product (OSSUTIL – T8626) provides the essential OSS user commands and
utilities. Beginning with the J06.14 and H06.25 RVUs, the OSS Core Utilities product (T1202)
provides additional Open Source utilities.
The OSS Core Utilities provide industry-standard alternatives (not replacements or updates) to the
original OSS Utilities. Some of the OSS Core Utilities have the same names as those present in the
OSS Utilities. These utilities are not in all cases upwardly-compatible replacements for the original
OSS Utilities, and the original OSS Utilities continue to exist.
The OSS Core Utilities comprises the following Open Source software:
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On NonStop systems running J06.14 or later J-series RVUs or H06.25 or later H-series RVUs,
the following Open Source software is provided:
◦ GNU core utilities (Coreutils) – see http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ .
◦ GNU compression and archival tools:
bzip2 – see http://bzip.org/ . –
– gzip – see http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/ .
– tar – see http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ .
◦ GNU BASH (Bourne-Again SHell) shell – see http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ .
◦ Vim (Vi IMproved) text editor – see http://www.vim.org/ .
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On NonStop systems running J06.16 or later J-series RVUs or H06.27 or later H-series RVUs,
the following additional Open Source software is provided:
◦ GNU Diffutils, consisting of cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff – see http://www.gnu.org/
software/diffutils/ .
◦ GNU Troff (Groff) utilities – see http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/ .
◦ GNU Make utility – see http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ .
◦ GNU Patch utility – see http://www.gnu.org/software/patch/ .
◦ Xinetd (extended Internet daemon), a super-server daemon – see http://xinetd.org/ .
◦ Prngd, a pseudo random number generator daemon – see http://prngd.sourceforge.net/ .
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On NonStop systems running J06.17 or later J-series RVUs or H06.28 or later H-series RVUs,
the following additional Open Source software is provided:
◦ GNU Findutils, consisting of find, locate, updatedb, and xargs – see http://
www.gnu.org/software/findutils/ .
◦ GNU Grep utility – see http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/ .
Some of these utilities have been enhanced to provide HP extensions and features specific to
NonStop platform. For details of these HP extensions and other information, see the respective
reference pages according to
“Using Commands That Share Identical Names” (page 189) . To see
the version information of an open source software, use the --version option. For example,
gzip --version
. The same is available in VPROC string if you are using T1202H01^AAC or
later. For example, VPROC string T1202H01_AAC_02JAN2014_COREUTILS_findutils_4_4_2
indicates that T1202H01^AAC SPR contains GNU Findutils version 4.4.2.
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