Highlights

• The minimum supported Rust version is now 1.60.
• Clap has been updated to version 4, bringing some changes in the formatting of help strings.
• cp has been gotten many small improvements that improve compatibility.
• dd has been simplified and has better compatibility.
• env now reraises signals from the child process.
• ls -l now shows more information on Windows.
• uname is now available for all supported platforms, instead of Unix-like platforms only.
• cp and mv can display a progress bar. This is an extension over GNU coreutils and inspired by advcpmv.
• There have been refactors, fixes and performance improvements in many utils, see below for details.

GNU test suite compatibility

Many utils have gotten minor changes to improve GNU compatibility. Below is a summary of the progress. See https://github.com/uutils/coreutils-tracking/ for more details

Changes

The PR's listed below are a selection of all the contributions in this release.

General

• Bump MSRV to 1.60 by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3994
• Clap 4 by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3991
• Migrate from winapi to windows-sys by @niyaznigmatullin in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4065
• Run the toybox testsuite by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4222
• Use normal use declarations to import macros by @miles170 in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4151
• Add installation page to docs with package managers by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4048
• Test utilities
  • Add UChild, an abstraction for std::process::Child by @Joining7943 in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4136
  • Add possibility to set timeout for UCommand and UChild. Add rstest with timeout macro to dev dependencies by @Joining7943 in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4231
  • Put #[track_caller] on assertion functions in test utils by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4252
• uucore
  • Add automatic conversion for nix::Errno by @orhun in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4060
  • Add prompt_yes macro by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4148
  • Add sprintf() function by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4185
  • Add options to parse_size::Parser by @trasua in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4224

chown

• Fails when XXXX. or XXXX: is provided (when XXXX is numeric value) by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4081

cp

• Move copy_directory() to its own module by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3901
• Correctly copy ancestor dirs in --parents mode by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4071
• cp -i --update source existing should not do anything and exit 0 by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4078
• Implement --copy-contents option for fifos by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3978
• Remove interactive mode message on 'no' by @sssemil in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4069
• Use sparse copy on --sparse=always by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4030
• Add progress bar by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3903 and improved by @djedi23 in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4179 and @ctsk in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4221
• Restrict copy through dangling symlink with -f by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4074
• Force copying file to itself with --backup by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3966
• Make --preserve use the defaults when empty by @sssemil in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4123
• Fix cp --force --backup f f fails on macOS by @miles170 in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4166
• Preserve hard links when target already exists by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4208
• Fix --verbose --parents output for both files and directories by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4184
• Force link between two files that exist by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4213
• Remove empty line from version output by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4283
• Require preserve only certain attributes by @sssemil in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4099
• Restrict permissions when copying FIFO by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4211

csplit

• Rename var to simplify format strings by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4266

cut

• Add whitespace option for separating fields by @TechHara in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4232

date

• Catch panic from invalid format string by @jaggededgedjustice in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4240

dd

• Allow B as a suffix for count, seek, and skip by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4137
• Create Dest enum and simpler Output struct by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4134
• Don't allocate buffer if count=0 by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4130
• Correctly set file size when conv=sparse by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4191
• Fix rendering of SI and IEC byte counts by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3653
• Fix progress line if 1 byte written by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4194

env

• Reraise signal from child process by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4011

expr

• Multiple fixes and tests added by @rivy in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4248

factor

• Trim the input to fix some busybox results by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4215

hashsum

• Warn on file not found rather than fail by @dmatos2012 in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4064
• Enable testing --no-names by @tertsdiepraam and @huijeong-kim in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4088

install

• No longer fails when target directory does not exist by @bruecke in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3950

ls

• Show more info in long format on Windows by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4014
• Use libc::{major, minor} to calculate device number by @SteveLauC in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4120

mktemp

• Allow default missing value by @dmatos2012 in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4091

mv

• mv -i --update source existing should not do anything and exit 0 by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4078
• Add progress bar by @ctsk in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4220

numfmt

• Handle negative zero values by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4076
• Allow hyphen values for --field option by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4090
• Round values if precision is 0 by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4089
• Allow - in field list by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4094
• Allow as field separator by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4096
• Add test for --field - (all fields) by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4093

pr

• Simplify format strings by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4264
• Add missing \ before line breaks by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4273

printenv

• Weird env variable names should trigger an error. by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4113

pwd

• Support the env variable POSIXLY_CORRECT by @sylvestre in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4085

rm

• GNU test rm3 now passes by @palaster in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4013

seq

• Simplify format strings by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4264

sleep

• Fix argument parsing and errors by @rivy in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4268

sort

• Allow a sort mode to appear multiple times by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4132

split

• Implement round-robin arg to --number by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3281
• Match GNU semantics for missing EOF by @andrewbaptist in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4009
• Fix "backticks are unbalanced" warnings by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4181

stat

• Show more info in long format on Windows by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4014
• Refactor by @tertsdiepraam in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4150

sum

• Fix output of about string by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4274
• Fix output when using BSD sum algo (-r) by @cakebaker in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4278

tail

• Refactor handling of warnings and early exits by @Joining7943 in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4135

touch

• Add support for some relative times by @jfinkels in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4193

uname

• build: uname is WinOS-compatible; move to 'Tier1' feature by @rivy in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4245
• change/uname ~ update and revise by @rivy in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4279

New Contributors

@huijeong-kim (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4027), @orhun (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4070), @SteveLauC (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4120), @miles170 (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4151), @djedi23 (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4179), @bruecke (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/3950), @ctsk (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4221), @trasua (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4224), @TechHara (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/4232)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/compare/0.0.16...0.0.17