uutils is an attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI utilities in Rust. This repository is intended to aggregate GNU coreutils rewrites.
Many GNU, Linux and other utilities are useful, and obviously some effort has been spent in the past to port them to Windows. However, those projects are written in platform-specific C, a language considered unsafe compared to Rust, and have other issues.
Rust provides a good, platform-agnostic way of writing systems utilities 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 1.47.
On both Windows and Redox, only the nightly version is tested currently.
There are currently two methods to build the uutils binaries: either Cargo or GNU Make.
Building the full package, including all documentation, requires both Cargo and Gnu Make on a Unix platform.
For either method, we first 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
This command builds the most portable common core set of uutils into a multicall (BusyBox-type) binary, named 'coreutils', on most Rust-supported platforms.
Additional platform-specific uutils are often available. Building these expanded sets of uutils for a platform (on that platform) is as simple as specifying it as a feature:
```bash $ cargo build --release --features macos
$ cargo build --release --features windows
$ cargo build --release --features unix ```
If you don't want to build every utility available on your platform into the final 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 want to build the multicall binary and would prefer to build
the utilities as individual binaries, that is also possible. Each utility
is contained in its own package within the main repository, named
"uu_UTILNAME". To build individual utilities, use cargo to build just the
specific packages (using the --package [aka -p] option). For example:
bash
$ cargo build -p uu_base32 -p uu_cat -p uu_echo -p uu_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 --path .
This command will install uutils into Cargo's bin folder (e.g. $HOME/.cargo/bin).
This does not install files necessary for shell completion. For shell completion to work,
use GNU Make or see Manually install shell completions.
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 ```
Installing with make installs shell completions for all installed utilities
for bash, fish and zsh. Completions for elvish and powershell can also
be generated; See Manually install shell completions.
The standard package set of NixOS provides this package out of the box since 18.03:
shell
$ nix-env -iA nixos.uutils-coreutils
The coreutils binary can generate completions for the bash, elvish, fish, powershell
and zsh shells. It prints the result to stdout.
The syntax is:
bash
cargo run completion <utility> <shell>
So, to install completions for ls on bash to /usr/local/share/bash-completion/completions/ls,
run:
bash
cargo run completion ls bash > /usr/local/share/bash-completion/completions/ls
Un-installation 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
If you also want to test the core utilities:
bash
$ cargo test -p uucore -p coreutils
To debug:
bash
$ gdb --args target/debug/coreutils ls
(gdb) b ls.rs:79
(gdb) run
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 tests for all utilities for which busybox has tests
bash
$ make busytest
To run busybox 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 run locally:
```bash $ bash util/build-gnu.sh $ bash util/run-gnu-test.sh
$ bash util/run-gnu-test.sh tests/touch/not-owner.sh # for example ```
Note that it relies on individual utilities (not the multicall binary).
To contribute to uutils, please see CONTRIBUTING.
| Done | Semi-Done | To Do |
|-----------|-----------|--------|
| arch | cp | stty |
| base32 | date | |
| base64 | dd | |
| basename | df | |
| basenc | expr | |
| cat | install | |
| chcon | join | |
| chgrp | ls | |
| chmod | more | |
| chown | numfmt | |
| chroot | od (--strings and 128-bit data types missing) | |
| cksum | pr | |
| comm | printf | |
| csplit | sort | |
| cut | split | |
| dircolors | tac | |
| dirname | tail | |
| du | test | |
| 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 | | |
| runcon | | |
| seq | | |
| shred | | |
| shuf | | |
| sleep | | |
| stat | | |
| stdbuf | | |
| sum | | |
| sync | | |
| tee | | |
| timeout | | |
| touch | | |
| tr | | |
| true | | |
| truncate | | |
| tsort | | |
| tty | | |
| uname | | |
| unexpand | | |
| uniq | | |
| unlink | | |
| uptime | | |
| users | | |
| wc | | |
| who | | |
| whoami | | |
| yes | | |
This is an auto-generated table showing which binaries compile for each target-triple. Note that this does not indicate that they are fully implemented, or that the tests pass.
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uutils is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details
GNU Coreutils is licensed under the GPL 3.0 or later.