Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils
Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MS-Coreutils-For-Windows
Publish Date: 2026-06-03 05:47:00
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As another interesting takeaway from this week’s Microsoft Build 2026 conference beyond their open-source Intelligent Terminal project is Coreutils for Windows. Microsoft is maintaining a fork of Rust Coreutils for Windows to ease the developer experience across Windows / WSL / macOS / Linux.
Coreutils for Windows is Microsoft’s maintained build of the Rust Coreutils (uutils) project along with findutils and grep. The newly-established microsoft/coreutils on GitHub argues it as:
“A Microsoft-maintained build of uutils/coreutils, findutils, and grep packaged as a single multi-call binary for Windows. The goal is to make moving between Linux, macOS, WSL, containers, and Windows frictionless: the same commands, flags, and pipelines work the same way, so existing scripts carry over without translation.”
Coreutils for Windows is currently considered in preview form.
The Microsoft documentation adds more about the Coreutils for Windows experience. Microsoft Coreutils for Windows can also be easily installed now using WinGet.
The times we live in with Microsoft now maintaining a Rust Coreutils build for Windows.
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