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<!-- spell-checker:ignore markdownlint ; (options) DESTDIR RUNTEST UTILNAME -->
uutils is an attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI
utilities in [Rust](http://www.rust-lang.org). This repository is intended to
aggregate GNU coreutils rewrites.
utilities in [Rust](http://www.rust-lang.org).
## Why?
Many GNU, Linux and other utilities are useful, and obviously
[some](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net) [effort](http://unxutils.sourceforge.net)
has been spent in the past to port them to Windows. However, those projects
are written in platform-specific C, a language considered unsafe compared to Rust, and
have other issues.
Rust provides a good, platform-agnostic way of writing systems utilities that are easy
to compile anywhere, and this is as good a way as any to try and learn it.
uutils aims to work on as many platforms as possible, to be able to use the
same utils on Linux, Mac, Windows and other platforms. This ensures, for
example, that scripts can be easily transferred between platforms. Rust was
chosen not only because it is fast and safe, but is also excellent for
writing cross-platform code.
## Documentation
uutils has both user and developer documentation available: