A huge milestone: Rust-based core utilities are now the default for most commands, after a full cycle of real-world testing, security audits and terrific collaborations!

Excited by what’s next!

uutils @uutils@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Rust Coreutils 0.8.0 is out.

Highlights: significant performance improvements across many utilities, better GNU compatibility, and 70+ utilities now run as WebAssembly.

Try them in your browser: https://uutils.github.io/playground/

Manpages now include TL;DR examples, source links, open bugs, and are available in multiple languages.

13 new contributors (27 total). Release notes: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.8.0

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uutils @uutils@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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While working on Uutils Coreutils, we learnt that Iran uses a different calendar (the Solar Hijri calendar)! Try it yourself in our WASM playground - no install needed: https://uutils.github.io/playground/?cmd=locale%20fa-IR%0Adate

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uutils @uutils@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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One more good news: since we’re a drop-in replacement for GNU coreutils, you can also use these pages as manpages for their implementation 🙂

uutils @uutils@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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you can pass arguments to the playground directly: https://uutils.github.io/playground/?cmd=shuf%20-e%20%F0%9F%98%80%20%F0%9F%98%81%20%F0%9F%98%82%20%F0%9F%A4%96%20%F0%9F%91%BE%20%F0%9F%90%A7%20%F0%9F%9A%80%20%F0%9F%8C%88%20%F0%9F%8D%95%20-n9%20%7C%20paste%20-%20-%20-

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uutils @uutils@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@levitating@mastodon.sdf.org could you please open a bug about it ? thanks

uutils @uutils@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@levitating@mastodon.sdf.org https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/11669 not sure it is going to be green but let's see! :)

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ls: honor LC_TIME for --time-style=locale by sylvestre · Pull Request #11669 · uutils/coreutils

on my system $ export L="en_US fr_FR ru_RU.KOI8-R fa_IR.UTF-8 am_ET.UTF-8 th_TH.UTF-8 zh_CN.GB18030"; for f in $L; do echo "$f:"; LANG=$f cargo run -q --features unix -- ls -al ...