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How many documented and undocumented bugs does GNU coreutils ship with? 0.5.0 is explicitly a pre-stable version. (Sure, I realize that GNUcu is old and mature
by Sharlin 11mo ago
How many documented and undocumented bugs does GNU coreutils ship with? 0.5.0 is explicitly a pre-stable version.
(Sure, I realize that GNUcu is old and mature enough to have been pretty thoroughly debugged by this point.)
- steveklabnik 11mo agoThe uutils project has found bugs in upstream, added extra tests, and clarified behavior. It’s helped both projects improve.
- josephg 11mo agoAlso bear in mind these tools have a long tail of obscure features that aren’t used much. Theres a useful subset of coreutils that is common across gnu coreutils, busybox and FreeBSD & macOS. Full coreutils compatibility is laudable - and of course needed if it’ll ever be a viable replacement. But most shell scripts people actually write probably already work on top of this port.