uutils/coreutils 0.0.17

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Highlights

• The minimum supported Rust version is now 1.60.
• Clap has been updated to version 4, bringing some changes in the formatting of help strings.
• cp has been gotten many small improvements that improve compatibility.
• dd has been simplified and has better compatibility.
• env now reraises signals from the child process.
• ls -l now shows more information on Windows.
• uname is now available for all supported platforms, instead of Unix-like platforms only.
• cp and mv can display a progress bar. This is an extension over GNU coreutils and inspired by advcpmv.
• There have been refactors, fixes and performance improvements in many utils, see below for details.

GNU test suite compatibility

Many utils have gotten minor changes to improve GNU compatibility. Below is a summary of the progress. See https://github.com/uutils/coreutils-tracking/ for more details

Changes

The PR's listed below are a selection of all the contributions in this release.

General

• Bump MSRV to 1.60 by @tertsdiepraam in #3994
• Clap 4 by @tertsdiepraam in #3991
• Migrate from winapi to windows-sys by @niyaznigmatullin in #4065
• Run the toybox testsuite by @sylvestre in #4222
• Use normal use declarations to import macros by @miles170 in #4151
• Add installation page to docs with package managers by @tertsdiepraam in #4048
• Test utilities
  • Add UChild, an abstraction for std::process::Child by @Joining7943 in #4136
  • Add possibility to set timeout for UCommand and UChild. Add rstest with timeout macro to dev dependencies by @Joining7943 in #4231
  • Put #[track_caller] on assertion functions in test utils by @tertsdiepraam in #4252
• uucore
  • Add automatic conversion for nix::Errno by @orhun in #4060
  • Add prompt_yes macro by @tertsdiepraam in #4148
  • Add sprintf() function by @jfinkels in #4185
  • Add options to parse_size::Parser by @trasua in #4224

chown

• Fails when XXXX. or XXXX: is provided (when XXXX is numeric value) by @sylvestre in #4081

cp

• Move copy_directory() to its own module by @jfinkels in #3901
• Correctly copy ancestor dirs in --parents mode by @jfinkels in #4071
• cp -i --update source existing should not do anything and exit 0 by @sylvestre in #4078
• Implement --copy-contents option for fifos by @jfinkels in #3978
• Remove interactive mode message on 'no' by @sssemil in #4069
• Use sparse copy on --sparse=always by @jfinkels in #4030
• Add progress bar by @tertsdiepraam in #3903 and improved by @djedi23 in #4179 and @ctsk in #4221
• Restrict copy through dangling symlink with -f by @jfinkels in #4074
• Force copying file to itself with --backup by @jfinkels in #3966
• Make --preserve use the defaults when empty by @sssemil in #4123
• Fix cp --force --backup f f fails on macOS by @miles170 in #4166
• Preserve hard links when target already exists by @jfinkels in #4208
• Fix --verbose --parents output for both files and directories by @jfinkels in #4184
• Force link between two files that exist by @jfinkels in #4213
• Remove empty line from version output by @cakebaker in #4283
• Require preserve only certain attributes by @sssemil in #4099
• Restrict permissions when copying FIFO by @jfinkels in #4211

csplit

• Rename var to simplify format strings by @cakebaker in #4266

cut

• Add whitespace option for separating fields by @TechHara in #4232

date

• Catch panic from invalid format string by @jaggededgedjustice in #4240

dd

• Allow B as a suffix for count, seek, and skip by @jfinkels in #4137
• Create Dest enum and simpler Output struct by @jfinkels in #4134
• Don't allocate buffer if count=0 by @jfinkels in #4130
• Correctly set file size when conv=sparse by @jfinkels in #4191
• Fix rendering of SI and IEC byte counts by @jfinkels in #3653
• Fix progress line if 1 byte written by @jfinkels in #4194

env

• Reraise signal from child process by @tertsdiepraam in #4011

expr

• Multiple fixes and tests added by @rivy in #4248

factor

• Trim the input to fix some busybox results by @sylvestre in #4215

hashsum

• Warn on file not found rather than fail by @dmatos2012 in #4064
• Enable testing --no-names by @tertsdiepraam and @huijeong-kim in #4088

install

• No longer fails when target directory does not exist by @bruecke in #3950

ls

• Show more info in long format on Windows by @tertsdiepraam in #4014
• Use libc::{major, minor} to calculate device number by @SteveLauC in #4120

mktemp

• Allow default missing value by @dmatos2012 in #4091

mv

• mv -i --update source existing should not do anything and exit 0 by @sylvestre in #4078
• Add progress bar by @ctsk in #4220

numfmt

• Handle negative zero values by @cakebaker in #4076
• Allow hyphen values for --field option by @cakebaker in #4090
• Round values if precision is 0 by @cakebaker in #4089
• Allow - in field list by @cakebaker in #4094
• Allow as field separator by @cakebaker in #4096
• Add test for --field - (all fields) by @cakebaker in #4093

pr

• Simplify format strings by @cakebaker in #4264
• Add missing \ before line breaks by @cakebaker in #4273

printenv

• Weird env variable names should trigger an error. by @sylvestre in #4113

pwd

• Support the env variable POSIXLY_CORRECT by @sylvestre in #4085

rm

• GNU test rm3 now passes by @palaster in #4013

seq

• Simplify format strings by @cakebaker in #4264

sleep

• Fix argument parsing and errors by @rivy in #4268

sort

• Allow a sort mode to appear multiple times by @tertsdiepraam in #4132

split

• Implement round-robin arg to --number by @jfinkels in #3281
• Match GNU semantics for missing EOF by @andrewbaptist in #4009
• Fix "backticks are unbalanced" warnings by @cakebaker in #4181

stat

• Show more info in long format on Windows by @tertsdiepraam in #4014
• Refactor by @tertsdiepraam in #4150

sum

• Fix output of about string by @cakebaker in #4274
• Fix output when using BSD sum algo (-r) by @cakebaker in #4278

tail

• Refactor handling of warnings and early exits by @Joining7943 in #4135

touch

• Add support for some relative times by @jfinkels in #4193

uname

• build: uname is WinOS-compatible; move to 'Tier1' feature by @rivy in #4245
• change/uname ~ update and revise by @rivy in #4279

New Contributors

@huijeong-kim (#4027), @orhun (#4070), @SteveLauC (#4120), @miles170 (#4151), @djedi23 (#4179), @bruecke (#3950), @ctsk (#4221), @trasua (#4224), @TechHara (#4232)

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