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Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

162 mentions on Hacker News by 138 people: 22 stories, 140 comments · first 2013-11-29 · latest 2026-10-04

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  1. Efforts have been done, see: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils https://www.google.com/search?q=coreutils+rust
    comment by agumonkey · 2015-06-07 · in Unix is not an acceptable Unix
  2. …is a waste of time, I figured it's worth mentioning the Rust based re-implementation of coreutils: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/ And another by suckless in plain C: http://git.suckless.org/sbase/tree/README
    comment by caipre · 2015-05-09 · in Gonix – Unix tools written in Go
  3. There is uutils [1], which I believe is doing exactly what you are saying. [1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
    comment by whyever · 2015-02-22 · in Show HN: Exa, a replacement for ls written in Rust
  4. The Rust version, from the coreutils rewrite project: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/echo/ech...
    comment by twic · 2015-02-22 · in Unix V5, OpenBSD, Plan 9, FreeBSD, and GNU Coreutils Implementations of Echo.c
  5. …reason: they provide an example of Rust is one of it's niche environments - low level tooling. [0]: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
    comment by indiv0 · 2015-02-22 · in Show HN: Exa, a replacement for ls written in Rust
  6. There's a core-utils in rust repo https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
    comment by paulmlewis · 2014-12-12 · in Show HN: Iota – a text editor written in Rust
  7. No need to wait! :) https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
    comment by untothebreach · 2014-12-02 · in Go: Planning the 1.5 release
  8. By the way, you may be interested in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
    comment by steveklabnik · 2014-10-26 · in Don't run 'strings' on untrusted files
  9. …be to port all of GNU/Linux to Rust. Here's a start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7882211 https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/tree/master/src
    comment by chime · 2014-10-25 · in Don't run 'strings' on untrusted files
  10. …you didn't write. Rust made the list because somebody already ported the GNU core utils to Rust ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils ). Feel free to use C++11/14, OCaml, D or what have you. I hope we agree that C isn't the best choice.
    comment by teamhappy · 2014-09-28 · in Dear clueless assholes: stop bashing bash and GNU
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    Cross-platform Rust Rewrite of the GNU Coreutils
    story by doppp · 2014-06-12 · 208 comments
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    Uutils is an attempt at writing universal CLI utils in Rust
    story by steveklabnik · 2013-11-29 · 0 comments