Re: Which Coreutils Programs Use Non-Numeric Input/Data?

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 2020-05-25 10:36, Nani Hutagaol wrote:
> I am currently in research about programs with non-numeric input, and I
> want to use the program Coreutils. But it has so many programs that I can
> not check one by one to see which non-numeric programs and not.
> 
> Through this email, I beg for your help, can you please tell me, Which
> Coreutils programs use non-numeric input/data? I mean the program executing
> text or file, and not integers.

Without knowing your use case or what you want to investigate it's hard to 
answer.

>From the list of coreutils programs [1], most of them do not use numeric
input (e.g. the *sum family: md5sum, sha1sum , sha256sum, ...) - and some
do not even use input at all (sleep, rm, kill, touch, ...).

[1] https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/README#n8

Have a nice day,
Berny