uutils/coreutils
- Total stars
- 24,196
- Today
- +1
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About the project
Cross-platform Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils: a set of basic Unix utilities (cat, ls, rm, etc.) that behave the same on Linux, macOS, Windows and WASI.
Useful for
- Build a multicall coreutils binary to use the same utilities on Windows and Linux
- Replace GNU coreutils in a distro or container with the Rust version using the same flags
- Build only selected utilities (e.g. base32, cat, echo, rm) via cargo features
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 28, 2026, 10:29 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
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Why it’s trending
- 1 star so far today, about 4 expected by the end of the day.
- Hacker News: “Rust coreutils acknowledges copying of GNU GPL code” — 7 points, 10 days ago.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
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Daily measurements · UTC
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Numbers
- Total stars
- 24,196
- Today
- +1 star on 2026-09-28 (UTC), ≈ 4 by evening
- Forks
- 2,065
- Issues and pull requests
- 14,723
- Watchers
- 194
- Language
- Rust
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- 0.12.0 · September 17, 2026
- Created
- August 2, 2013
- Last push
- September 28, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Rust coreutils acknowledges copying of GNU GPL code7 points, September 17, 2026
- Rust coreutils acknowledges copying of GNU GPL code5 points, September 29, 2026
Spotted in
- September 18, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #8, +169 stars
- September 17, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #8, +169 stars
- September 16, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #12, +14 stars
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