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ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better coreutils alternative or higher similarity.
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Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU
Docs full of emojis, this is another AI slop?!
There is already a community effort[1] to rewrite GNU commandline tools into Rust and Canonical shipped the rust version of the /bin/utils in Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon by default[2] in their "oxidizing" initiative[3]
[1]: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
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Coreutils for Windows
A fair question is why this fork of coreutils is required when the original Rust rewrite (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/) supports Windows, in addition to Linux, macOS and wasm.
The reason seems to be a few windows specific fixes (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/compare/main...microsoft...) which can probably be upstreamed into the main repo.
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What 44 CVEs Tell You About Rust's Safety Boundary
TOCTOU on path operations is the largest cluster, and the reason cp, mv, and rm are still the GNU implementations in 26.04 LTS rather than uutils. The pattern is one syscall to check, another to act, both taking a &Path. Between them, an attacker with write access to a parent directory can swap the path component for a symlink, the kernel re-resolves on the second call, and the privileged action lands on the attacker's chosen target. The clearest case is CVE-2026-35355 in install:
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Bugs Rust Won't Catch
Why differential fuzzing did not catch these bugs?
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/tree/main/fuzz/uufuzz
- Malus – Clean Room as a Service
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Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
> but if there's a python GPL project, and it's tests (spec) were used to rewrite specs in rust, and then an implementation in rust, can the second project be legally MIT, or any other?
Isn't that what https://github.com/uutils/coreutils is? GNU coreutils spec and test suite, used to produce a rust MIT implementation.
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What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust
> I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they change it to GPL just to shut people up.
They don't and wont.
> I searched but couldn't find an answer.
Here's the answer: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/2757. This is a link I found long time ago and saved to reference when need arises.
From the lead author:
The license has been decided way before my time. I am 0 interest in starting a license debate (I care if the license is DFSG - Debian Free Software Guidelines) and spend time on it. I would rather use my limited time to make rust/coreutils ready for production. - Rust Coreutils v0.6.0 Release: 96% GNU compatibility with safety improvements
- Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils
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easy-install: A Rust-Powered Package Installer That Actually Works on OpenWrt
If you hit missing dependency errors (like mktemp), uutils/coreutils provides rust implementations of Unix core utilities.
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uutils/coreutils is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of coreutils is Rust.
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