Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT

Post by teiferer » Mon, Oct 06, 2025, 6:43 PM UTC

geraldcombs wrote: post #23

rauli_ wrote: post #19

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Windows and *nix systems are often used for very different things so I don't understand why there would be need for some kind of universal superbinary. And thanks to WSL you can already get GNU coretools running in Windows anyways.

I lead a large-ish open source software project. We have developers that need to build on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It's useful to be able to get everyone bootstrapped with as few steps as possible and with as few dependencies as possible. For our uses CMake works well as a universal superbinary, but I'm always on the lookout for tools that can reduce developer friction.

Post by westurner » Mon, Oct 06, 2025, 11:21 PM UTC

conradludgate wrote: post #41

collinfunk wrote: post #24

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Note that uutils does not work if the file does not fit into memory. With GNU coreutils: $ base64 /dev/zero | head -c 1 | wc -c 1 With uutils doing the same would exhaust your systems memory until either it freezes or oomd kills the process.

For now. There's no reason this won't/can't be worked on in the future.

Post by ksdme9 » Tue, Oct 07, 2025, 11:14 AM UTC

BerislavLopac wrote: post #50

> Data Generation: uuid (v1, v3, v4, v5) The new versions 7 and 8 are really a must these days, especially v7.