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+<sect2>
+<title>Contents</title>
+
+<para>
+The Fileutils package contains the chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, dd, df, dir,
+dircolors, du, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir,
+sync, touch and vdir programs.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2><title>Description</title>
+
+<sect3><title>chgrp</title>
+
+<para>
+chgrp changes the group ownership of each given file to the named group, 
+which can be either a group name or a numeric group ID.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>chmod</title>
+
+<para>
+chmod changes the permissions of each given file according to mode, which 
+can be either a symbolic representation of changes to make, or an octal 
+number representing the bit pattern for the new permissions.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>chown</title>
+
+<para>
+chown changes the user and/or group ownership of each given file.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>cp</title>
+
+<para>
+cp copies files from one place to another.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>dd</title>
+
+<para>
+dd copies a file (from the standard input to the standard output, by default) 
+with a user-selectable blocksize, while optionally performing conversions 
+on it.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>df</title>
+
+<para>
+df displays the amount of disk space available on the filesystem
+containing each file name argument. If no file name is given, the space 
+available on all currently mounted filesystems is shown.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>ls, dir and vdir</title>
+
+<para>
+dir and vdir are versions of ls with different default output formats. 
+These programs list each given file or directory name. Directory contents 
+are sorted alphabetically.  For ls, files are by default listed in columns, 
+sorted  vertically, if the standard output is a terminal; otherwise they 
+are listed one per  line. For dir, files are by default listed in columns,
+sorted vertically. For vdir, files are by default listed in long format.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>dircolors</title>
+
+<para>
+dircolors  outputs commands to set the LS_COLOR environment variable.
+The LS_COLOR variable is use to change the default color scheme used by
+ls and related utilities.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>du</title>
+
+<para>
+du displays the amount of disk space used by each argument and for each 
+subdirectory of directory arguments.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>install</title>
+
+<para>
+install copies files and sets their permission modes and, if possible, 
+their owner and group.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>ln</title>
+
+<para>
+ln makes hard or soft (symbolic) links between files.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>mkdir</title>
+
+<para>
+mkdir creates directories with a given name.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>mkfifo</title>
+
+<para>
+mkfifo creates a FIFO with each given name.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>mknod</title>
+
+<para>
+mknod creates a FIFO, character special file, or block special file with the 
+given file name.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>mv</title>
+
+<para>
+mv moves files from one directory to another or renames files, depending
+on the arguments given to mv.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>rm</title>
+
+<para>
+rm removes files or directories.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>rmdir</title>
+
+<para>
+rmdir removes directories, if they are empty.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>sync</title>
+
+<para>
+sync forces changed blocks to disk and updates the super block.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>touch</title>
+
+<para>
+touch changes the access and modification times of each given file to the 
+current time. Files that do not exist are created empty.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+</sect2>
+