Alternatives to uutils coreutils
A cross-platform rewrite of the GNU coreutils in Rust, covering commands such as ls, cp and sort. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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uutils coreutils
A cross-platform rewrite of the GNU coreutils in Rust, covering commands such as ls, cp and sort.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as uutils coreutils.
GNU Coreutils
The core GNU file, shell and text utilities, including ls, cp, mv and sort.
GNU Coreutils is the standard GPL-3.0 command set on most Linux systems with the options scripts expect, but it has no native Windows or macOS listing.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
moreutils
A collection of small general-purpose Unix command-line tools such as sponge, chronic and ifne.
eza
A replacement for ls with colours, icons, a tree view and Git status in the listing.
bat
Like cat, but with syntax highlighting, line numbers, Git markers and a pager when the file is long.
fd
Finds files by name without the argument soup that find requires, and it is much faster.
xcp
A partial clone of the Unix cp command with progress feedback and optimisations for some copy tasks.
GNU sed
The GNU stream editor for filtering and transforming text from files or pipelines.
