Microsoft brings Rust Coreutils to Windows – natively

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Microsoft brings Rust Coreutils to Windows – natively

Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, allowing a stack of familiar "Linux-like" command-line utilities to run natively on Windows. The project is based on uutils, the Rust-based reimplementation of GNU coreutils that Ubuntu (mostly) has adopted in recent releases. Microsoft's package bundles uutils' coreutils and findutils as well as a GNU-compatible grep in a single binary. It offers tools like cat, cp, ls, mv and uptime. Commands that use POSIX-only features are excluded, meaning chmod, chown, kill and others aren't included. What's notable – *nix tools working their way into the Windows ecosystem is notable – is that this isn't [...]

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Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/microsoft-release-windows-coreutils Jun 10, 2026, 07:21 PM