Talk:Core utilities

unrelated to the "rm" utility

Despite the last edit, I think trash management is related to rm. I agree that a full section might be overblown, but maybe a mention in "preventing data loss" could be interesting ? -- Apollo22 (talk) 20:38, 25 May 2019‎ (UTC)

rm does not support "trash" or anything described on the linked page. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 20:44, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

Yes but utilies implementing trash management can be used as an alternative to rm -- Apollo22 (talk) 20:48, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

For the only alternative listed in Trash management: https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli#can-i-alias-rm-to-trash-put -- Lahwaacz (talk) 20:53, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

I don't think alternatives need to be drop-in replacement. But as it does mark a significant change compared to rm, I now think it should be in the alternative section, and not in the first two. Also, some utilies like rmtrash^AUR are compatible with rm. (by the way thanks for challenging me on this) Apollo22 (talk) 21:16, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

Include "rename" utilities

What would be the best way to include "rename" and "perl-rename" to the article? First I thought they could be "mv" alternatives on the Essentials table, but maybe it would be better to put "rename" in the Nonessentials table and "perl-rename" as one of its alternatives there. Xijang (talk) 01:47, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Swapping coreutils with uutils

Is it fine to add coreutils-uutils^AUR and coreutils-uutils-symlink^AUR to the wiki? Or too early to add ? They already has binaries except for SELinux related bins. oech3 (talk) 07:47, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

It is already there: Core utilities#Alternatives. — Lahwaacz (talk) 11:18, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

They are drop-in oech3 (talk) 11:56, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Or,

= Section: Replacing coreutils with alternatives =

Aliasing uu-coreutils does not work for scripts as a drop-in for coreutils

You can use uu-coreutils as a drop-in for coreutils by

mkdir uu;for f in $(uu-coreutils --list); do ln -s /usr/bin/uu-coreutils uu/$f; done;export PATH="uu;$PATH" oech3 (talk) 15:26, 2 June 2025 (UTC)