Microsoft releases Coreutils for Windows 11 with familiar Linux commands

[Ron Schultz]

Announcing the launch of CoreUtils, Microsoft says: “Developers constantly move between platforms, but familiar commands don’t work consistently, forcing workarounds, lost speed and context switching”.

The company continues:

To address this, we’ve built Coreutils for Windows from the uutils open-source project, a cross-platform reimplementation of GNU Coreutils in Rust. These are Linux-like command-line utilities that run natively on Windows. Whether you’re moving between Linux, macOS, WSL, containers or cloud environments, the commands and workflows you’ve built over years just work in your Windows environment.

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