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  • bug(stat): a \n or valid utf8 encoded char in --format in it own is ignored, while gnu applies it
    May be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Open
    U - stat

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    uutils/coreutils#15347 · 1 comment ·

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  • Cut a new release
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 30/100

    uutils/ansi-width#20 ·

  • ~180 differences between GNU coreutils and uutils, found by AI fuzzer
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    uutils/coreutils#15254 · 10 comments ·

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  • Weblate hasn't pushed most components since Sep 17
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    uutils/coreutils-l10n#71 ·

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  • Update libc dependency to v0.2.191
    Open
    awaiting upstream dependencies I - Tracker issue

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 15/100

    uutils/coreutils#15231 · 5 comments ·

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  • Use wasi_ext once stabilized in Rust
    Open
    awaiting upstream I - Tracker issue

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

    uutils/coreutils#15215 ·

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  • Discuss optional signed Packslip release manifests before implementation
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100

    uutils/coreutils#15212 · 2 comments ·

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  • RUSTSEC-2026-0253: Potential use-after-free due to lack of panic safety in `LruCache::pop()`
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    uutils/coreutils#15192 · 1 comment ·

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  • Building with GNU make recompiles almost everything
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    uutils/coreutils#15147 · 2 comments ·

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  • performance regression with codegen-units=1
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    uutils/sed#599 ·

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  • macOS CI jobs experience excessive queuing
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    uutils/coreutils#15105 · 4 comments ·

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  • nix dependency fails to compile for AIX targets
    Open
    awaiting upstream dependencies

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    uutils/coreutils#15083 · 2 comments ·

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  • Remove duplicate itertools dependency
    Open
    awaiting upstream B - low priority dependencies

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    uutils/coreutils#15060 ·

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  • grep: -F -f rejects a pattern file that contains invalid UTF-8
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

    uutils/grep#132 ·

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  • tar: repeated hard-link members fail during extraction
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    uutils/tar#382 ·

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  • install: errors for a target that is not a directory differ from GNU
    Open
    U - install

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

    uutils/coreutils#14999 · 2 comments ·

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  • du_all_wide_tree benchmark has high variance
    Open
    B - high priority U - du

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 82/100

    uutils/coreutils#14984 · 1 comment ·

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  • Benchmarks have high variance
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    uutils/num-prime#134 ·

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  • CodSpeed benchmark issues
    Open
    B - medium priority I - Tracker issue

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    uutils/coreutils#14960 ·

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  • bump MSRV to 1.85
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    uutils/num-prime#133 ·

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  • csplit: a `/REGEX/` pattern after a line-number pattern never tests the line the split stopped at
    Possibly taken @limadog9 claimed this today. Open

    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 25/100

    uutils/coreutils#15440 ·

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  • comm: sorted input rejected as "not in sorted order" when a line is a prefix of the next followed by a tab
    Possibly taken @limadog9 claimed this today. Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 18/100

    uutils/coreutils#15439 ·

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  • test_stty.rs: Support bsd cfg_aliases
    Possibly taken @limadog9 claimed this 1 day ago. Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 22/100

    uutils/coreutils#15423 ·

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  • who: gate by target support
    Possibly taken @xtqqczze claimed this 1 day ago. Open
    B - medium priority S - In progress U - who

    uutils/coreutils#15420 · 1 assignee ·

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  • find on Windows: opt in to / as the path separator
    Possibly taken @mutewinter claimed this 2 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    uutils/findutils#906 ·

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  • mv a/ b: raw ENOTDIR surfaces under WASI instead of the translated "cannot stat" message
    Possibly taken @limadog9 claimed this 2 days ago. Open
    U - mv

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    uutils/coreutils#15370 ·

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  • cksum/b2sum --check: empty filename opens preopened dir instead of ENOENT under WASI
    Possibly taken A pull request linked to this issue is open or already merged. Open
    U - cksum

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

    uutils/coreutils#15357 · 1 comment ·

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  • minorbug(mv): invalid mode errors not quoted
    Possibly taken @henrimarconni claimed this 1 day ago. Open
    U - mv

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

    uutils/coreutils#15350 ·

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  • bug(stat): Parser Edge Cases (--format option) (Fuzzing Part 1)
    Possibly taken @Franklin-Qi claimed this 1 day ago. Open
    U - stat

    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 22/100

    uutils/coreutils#15348 ·

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  • uucore: doesn't build with --no-default-features
    Possibly taken @limadog9 claimed this 2 days ago. Open
    U - All (uucore)

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

    uutils/coreutils#15339 · 3 comments ·

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  • mkdir, mknod, mkfifo: -Z ignores the policy default for a relative name
    Possibly taken @abendrothj claimed this 3 days ago. Open
    U - mkdir U - mkfifo U - mknod

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    uutils/coreutils#15335 ·

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  • install -d/-D with -Z or --context relabels directories that already exist
    Possibly taken @abendrothj claimed this 3 days ago. Open
    U - install

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    uutils/coreutils#15332 ·

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  • cp --remove-destination opens a file that appears after the removal
    Possibly taken @abendrothj claimed this 3 days ago. Open
    U - cp

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

    uutils/coreutils#15329 ·

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  • stty: Some Rust native test depends on system (GNU) coreutils
    Possibly taken @Franklin-Qi claimed this 1 day ago. Open
    U - stty

    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 45/100

    uutils/coreutils#15311 ·

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  • ptx: break file missing path in error message
    Possibly taken @Franklin-Qi claimed this 1 day ago. Open
    U - ptx

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

    uutils/coreutils#15307 · 1 comment ·

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  • touch -d interprets a date/time without timezone as UTC instead of local time
    Possibly taken @jay23606 claimed this 4 days ago. Open
    U - touch

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    uutils/coreutils#15291 ·

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  • Make`AtPath::write` to take an `AsRef<Path>`
    Possibly taken @RenjiSann claimed this 4 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100

    uutils/coreutils#15287 ·

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  • join: -o field list given as separate operands is rejected as extra operands
    Possibly taken @Franklin-Qi claimed this 1 day ago. Open
    U - join

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    uutils/coreutils#15279 · 1 comment ·

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  • stdbuf accepts killall stdbuf (don't use spawn() on unix at least for)
    Possibly taken @Franklin-Qi claimed this 5 days ago. Open
    U - stdbuf

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    uutils/coreutils#15259 · 1 comment ·

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  • more: busy-loops when its terminal hangs up
    Possibly taken @Franklin-Qi claimed this 5 days ago. Open
    U - more

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    uutils/coreutils#15258 ·

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  • uucore: hardware feature detection always reports nothing on Android
    Possibly taken @limadog9 claimed this 2 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

    uutils/coreutils#15233 ·

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  • ls: --colors=always -l . calls llistxattr twice for the same file
    Possibly taken @Franklin-Qi claimed this 8 days ago. Open
    S - In progress U - ls

    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 35/100

    uutils/coreutils#15207 · 3 comments ·

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  • rm: "traversal failed" is not shown when 2nd getdents64 failed on broken device
    Possibly taken @Franklin-Qi claimed this 8 days ago. Open
    U - rm

    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 25/100

    uutils/coreutils#15206 · 2 comments ·

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  • minorbug(stat): os errno not stripped when failing to flush stdout
    Possibly taken @cestercian claimed this 8 days ago. Open
    U - stat

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 67/100

    uutils/coreutils#15200 · 3 comments ·

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  • sort, uniq, fold: a read error does not say which input failed
    Possibly taken @NdekoCode claimed this 9 days ago. Open
    B - high priority gnu testsuite S - In progress U - fold U - sort U - uniq

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    uutils/coreutils#15190 ·

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  • timeout: words after DURATION are still parsed as options
    Possibly taken @SichenLiang claimed this 9 days ago. Open
    S - In progress U - timeout

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 20/100

    uutils/coreutils#15188 ·

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  • env: --default-signal, --ignore-signal and --block-signal are applied in a fixed order, not in the order given
    Possibly taken @paoValle claimed this 8 days ago. Open
    S - In progress U - env

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

    uutils/coreutils#15187 · 2 comments ·

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  • env: --list-signal-handling lists env's own changes, not the state of the signals
    Possibly taken @NdekoCode claimed this 9 days ago. Open
    U - env

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    uutils/coreutils#15185 ·

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  • sort: an invalid --parallel value is reported by clap, not as GNU does
    Possibly taken @NdekoCode claimed this 9 days ago. Open
    U - sort

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    uutils/coreutils#15183 ·

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  • shred: a FIFO, a directory and a missing file are reported differently from GNU
    Possibly taken @NdekoCode claimed this 9 days ago. Open
    U - shred

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    uutils/coreutils#15181 ·

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