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[README] Revise some suboptimal phrasing.
Also incorporated the change commentary by @Arcterus. ( Thanks! ).
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uutils is an attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI
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utils in [Rust](http://www.rust-lang.org). This repo is to aggregate the GNU
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coreutils rewrites.
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utilities in [Rust](http://www.rust-lang.org). This repository is intended to
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aggregate GNU coreutils rewrites.
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Why?
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----
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Many GNU, Linux and other utils are pretty awesome, and obviously
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Many GNU, Linux and other utilities are useful, and obviously
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[some](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net) [effort](http://unxutils.sourceforge.net)
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has been spent in the past to port them to Windows. However, those projects
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are either old, abandoned, hosted on CVS, written in platform-specific C, etc.
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are either old and abandoned, are hosted on CVS (which makes it more difficult
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for new contributors to contribute to them), are written in platform-specific C, or
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suffer from other issues.
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Rust provides a good, platform-agnostic way of writing systems utils that are easy
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Rust provides a good, platform-agnostic way of writing systems utilities that are easy
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to compile anywhere, and this is as good a way as any to try and learn it.
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Requirements
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