Coreutils Implementation

A project to implement GNU coreutils utilities in C++ and Zig. This is an ongoing effort to recreate the essential Unix/Linux command-line tools.

Implemented Utilities

• wc: Word, line, and byte counting utility
• true: Do nothing, successfully (exit with status 0)
• false: Do nothing, unsuccessfully (exit with status 1)

Planned Utilities

The project aims to implement all core utilities, including but not limited to:

• File Management: ls, cp, mv, rm, mkdir, cat, etc.
• Text Processing: head, tail, sort, uniq, etc.
• System Information: pwd, whoami, uname, etc.
• And many more...

Installation

Prerequisites

• Zig compiler (0.14 recommended)

Building from Source

Clone the repository and build using Zig's build system:

git clone https://github.com/guuzaa/coreutils.git
cd coreutils
zig build

The executables will be available in zig-out/bin/.

Usage

wc Examples

Count lines, words, and characters in a file:

wc file.txt

Count only lines in multiple files:

wc -l file1.txt file2.txt

Count words from standard input:

cat file.txt | wc -w

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to:

• Implement new utilities
• Improve existing implementations
• Report bugs
• Suggest enhancements

License

Licensed under Apache-2.0 license (LICENSE or http://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0)