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What (who) is utility program - definition

SYSTEM SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO HELP ANALYZE, CONFIGURE, OPTIMIZE OR MAINTAIN A COMPUTER

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utility program

utility software

utility program

¦ noun Computing a program for carrying out a routine function.

utility software

<tool> (Or utility program, tool) Any software that performs some specific task that is secondary to the main purpose of using the computer (the latter would be called {application programs}) but is not essential to the operation of the computer (system software). Many utilities could be considered as part of the {system software}, which can in turn be considered part of the operating system. The following are some broad categories of utility software, specific types and examples. * Disks disk formatter: FDISK, format defragmenter disk checker: fsck disk cleaner system profiler backup file system compression * Files and directories list directory: ls, dir copy, move, remove: cp, mv, rm, xcopy archive: tar compression: zip format conversion: atob comparison: diff sort: sort * Security authentication: login antivirus software: avast, Norton Antivirus firewall: Zone Alarm, Windows firewall encryption: gpg) * Editors for general-purpose formats (as opposed to specific formats like a word processing document) text editor: Emacs binary editor, hex editor * Communications mail transfer agent: sendmail e-mail notification: biff file transfer: ftp, rcp, Firefox file synchronisation: unison, briefcase chat: Gaim, cu directory services: bind, nslookup, whois network diagnosis: ping, traceroute remote access: rlogin, ssh * Software development compiler: gcc build: make, ant codewalker preprocessor: cpp debugger: adb, gdb installation: apt-get, msiexec, patch compiler compiler: yacc * Hardware device configuration: PCU, devman, stty (2007-02-02)

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Utility software

Utility software is software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a computer. It is used to support the computer infrastructure - in contrast to application software, which is aimed at directly performing tasks that benefit ordinary users. However, utilities often form part of the application systems. For example, a batch job may run user-written code to update a database and may then include a step that runs a utility to back up the database, or a job may run a utility to compress a disk before copying files.

Although a basic set of utility programs is usually distributed with an operating system (OS), and this first party utility software is often considered part of the operating system, users often install replacements or additional utilities. Those utilities may provide additional facilities to carry out tasks that are beyond the capabilities of the operating system.

Many utilities that might affect the entire computer system require the user to have elevated privileges, while others that operate only on the user's data do not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility software