This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch chat with Pádraig Brady about Coreutils! It’s been around since the 90s, and is still a healthy project under active development. You’ve almost certainly used these tools whether you realize it or not! What’s the relationship with the other coreutils implementations? And why is GNU Coreutils the most cautious of them all?
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- http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html
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- https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html
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Another coreutils-like project, similar to busybox, is toybox. It is already shipping as part of Android since Android Marshmallow (since 2015).
Here are the project details: https://landley.net/toybox/