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The uutils project has found bugs in upstream, added extra tests, and clarified behavior. It’s helped both projects improve.
by steveklabnik 11mo ago
The 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.