uutils is an attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI utils in Rust. This repo is to aggregate the GNU coreutils rewrites.
Many GNU, Linux and other utils are pretty awesome, and obviously some effort has been spent in the past to port them to Windows. However, those projects are either old, abandoned, hosted on CVS, written in platform-specific C, etc.
Rust provides a good, platform-agnostic way of writing systems utils that are easy to compile anywhere, and this is as good a way as any to try and learn it.
cargo, rustc)uutils follows Rust's release channels and is tested against stable, beta and nightly.
The current oldest supported version of the Rust compiler is 1.31.0.
On both Windows and Redox, only the nightly version is tested currently.
There are currently two methods to build uutils: GNU Make and Cargo. However, while there may be two methods, both systems are required to build on Unix (only Cargo is required on Windows).
First, for both methods, we need to fetch the repository:
bash
$ git clone https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
$ cd coreutils
Building uutils using Cargo is easy because the process is the same as for every other Rust program: ```bash
$ cargo build --release ```
Because the above command attempts to build utilities that only work on Unix-like platforms at the moment, to build on Windows, you must do the following: ```bash
$ cargo build --release --no-default-features --features windows ```
If you don't want to build every utility available on your platform into the
multicall binary (the Busybox-esque binary), you can also specify which ones
you want to build manually. For example:
bash
$ cargo build --features "base32 cat echo rm" --no-default-features
If you don't even want to build the multicall binary and would prefer to just
build the utilities as individual binaries, that is possible too. For example:
bash
$ cargo build -p base32 -p cat -p echo -p rm
Building using make is a simple process as well.
To simply build all available utilities:
bash
$ make
To build all but a few of the available utilities:
bash
$ make SKIP_UTILS='UTILITY_1 UTILITY_2'
To build only a few of the available utilities:
bash
$ make UTILS='UTILITY_1 UTILITY_2'
Likewise, installing can simply be done using:
bash
$ cargo install
This command will install uutils into Cargo's bin folder (e.g. $HOME/.cargo/bin).
To install all available utilities:
bash
$ make install
To install using sudo switch -E must be used:
bash
$ sudo -E make install
To install all but a few of the available utilities:
bash
$ make SKIP_UTILS='UTILITY_1 UTILITY_2' install
To install only a few of the available utilities:
bash
$ make UTILS='UTILITY_1 UTILITY_2' install
To install every program with a prefix (e.g. uu-echo uu-cat):
bash
$ make PROG_PREFIX=PREFIX_GOES_HERE install
To install the multicall binary:
bash
$ make MULTICALL=y install
Set install parent directory (default value is /usr/local): ```bash
$ make PREFIX=/my/path install ```
The standard package set of NixOS provides this package out of the box since 18.03:
nix-env -iA nixos.uutils-coreutils
Uninstallation differs depending on how you have installed uutils. If you used Cargo to install, use Cargo to uninstall. If you used GNU Make to install, use Make to uninstall.
To uninstall uutils:
bash
$ cargo uninstall uutils
To uninstall all utilities:
bash
$ make uninstall
To uninstall every program with a set prefix:
bash
$ make PROG_PREFIX=PREFIX_GOES_HERE uninstall
To uninstall the multicall binary:
bash
$ make MULTICALL=y uninstall
To uninstall from a custom parent directory: ```bash
$ make PREFIX=/my/path uninstall ```
Testing can be done using either Cargo or make.
Just like with building, we follow the standard procedure for testing using
Cargo:
bash
$ cargo test
By default, cargo test only runs the common programs. To run also platform
specific tests, run:
bash
$ cargo test --features unix
If you would prefer to test a select few utilities:
bash
$ cargo test --features "chmod mv tail" --no-default-features
To simply test all available utilities:
bash
$ make test
To test all but a few of the available utilities:
bash
$ make SKIP_UTILS='UTILITY_1 UTILITY_2' test
To test only a few of the available utilities:
bash
$ make UTILS='UTILITY_1 UTILITY_2' test
To include tests for unimplemented behavior:
bash
$ make UTILS='UTILITY_1 UTILITY_2' SPEC=y test
This testing functionality is only available on *nix operating systems and
requires make.
To run busybox's tests for all utilities for which busybox has tests
bash
$ make busytest
To run busybox's tests for a few of the available utilities
bash
$ make UTILS='UTILITY_1 UTILITY_2' busytest
To pass an argument like "-v" to the busybox test runtime
bash
$ make UTILS='UTILITY_1 UTILITY_2' RUNTEST_ARGS='-v' busytest
To contribute to uutils, please see CONTRIBUTING.
| Done | Semi-Done | To Do |
|-----------|-----------|--------|
| arch | cp | chcon |
| base32 | expr | csplit |
| base64 | install | dd |
| basename | ls | numfmt |
| cat | more | pr |
| chgrp | od (--strings and 128-bit data types missing) | runcon |
| chmod | printf | stty |
| chown | sort | |
| chroot | split | |
| cksum | tail | |
| comm | test | |
| cut | date | |
| dircolors | join | |
| dirname | df | |
| du | | |
| echo | | |
| env | | |
| expand | | |
| factor | | |
| false | | |
| fmt | | |
| fold | | |
| groups | | |
| hashsum | | |
| head | | |
| hostid | | |
| hostname | | |
| id | | |
| kill | | |
| link | | |
| ln | | |
| logname | | |
| ~~md5sum~~ (replaced by hashsum) | |
| ~~sha1sum~~ (replaced by hashsum) | |
| ~~sha224sum~~ (replaced by hashsum) | |
| ~~sha256sum~~ (replaced by hashsum) | |
| ~~sha384sum~~ (replaced by hashsum) | |
| ~~sha512sum~~ (replaced by hashsum) | |
| mkdir | | |
| mkfifo | | |
| mknod | | |
| mktemp | | |
| mv | | |
| nice | | |
| nl | | |
| nohup | | |
| nproc | | |
| paste | | |
| pathchk | | |
| pinky | | |
| printenv | | |
| ptx | | |
| pwd | | |
| readlink | | |
| realpath | | |
| relpath | | |
| rm | | |
| rmdir | | |
| seq | | |
| shred | | |
| shuf | | |
| sleep | | |
| stat | | |
| stdbuf | | |
| sum | | |
| sync | | |
| tac | | |
| tee | | |
| timeout | | |
| touch | | |
| tr | | |
| true | | |
| truncate | | |
| tsort | | |
| tty | | |
| uname | | |
| unexpand | | |
| uniq | | |
| unlink | | |
| uptime | | |
| users | | |
| wc | | |
| who | | |
| whoami | | |
| yes | | |
uutils is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details
