uutilsApr 4

We just shipped the Uutils playground.

Try Rust-powered Coreutils directly in your browser:
https://uutils.github.io/playground/

Curious how it works under the hood?
https://uutils.github.io/playground-how-it-works/
https://uutils.github.io/blog/2025-04-playground/

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you can pass arguments to the playground directly:
https://uutils.github.io/playground/?cmd=shuf%20-e%20%F0%9F%98%80%20%F0%9F%98%81%20%F0%9F%98%82%20%F0%9F%A4%96%20%F0%9F%91%BE%20%F0%9F%90%A7%20%F0%9F%9A%80%20%F0%9F%8C%88%20%F0%9F%8D%95%20-n9%20%7C%20paste%20-%20-%20-
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uutils — cross-platform Rust reimplementations of essential Unix command-line utilities

Apr 5 at 2:32pmWeb
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While working on Uutils Coreutils, we learnt that Iran uses a different calendar (the Solar Hijri calendar)! Try it yourself in our WASM playground - no install needed:

https://uutils.github.io/playground/?cmd=locale%20fa-IR%0Adate

Show threadLevitatingApr 5

@uutils The support for locales in GNU was/is impressive.

A few years ago I modified uutils ls to use chrono for time so we could implement locales there.

Though I am not sure we ever did fully implement it:

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@levitating could you please open a bug about it ? thanks
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@uutils https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/1872

There's a tracking bug for it. Apparently it's one of the last missing features.

ls: Compatibility Tracking Issue · Issue #1872 · uutils/coreutils

I've made an overview of all options that need to be added and defaults that need to be changed in ls to reach full compatibility with GNU ls. I hope this might help people out who want to contribu...

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@levitating tracking bugs are hard to manage!

Thanks

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@levitating https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/11669 not sure it is going to be green but let's see! :)
ls: honor LC_TIME for --time-style=locale by sylvestre · Pull Request #11669 · uutils/coreutils

on my system $ LANG=fr_FR cargo run -q --features unix -- ls -al --time-style=locale Cargo.toml -rw-rw-r--+ 1 sylvestre sylvestre 27798 avr 5 22:05 Cargo.toml $ LANG=fa_IR.UTF-8 cargo run -q --f...

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Show threadLevitatingApr 5
@uutils bad luck 😜