Microsoft Coreutils for Windows: UNIX Utilities Go Native

Originally published on Hacker News — June 2, 2026

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Microsoft released Coreutils for Windows, a native port of uutils/coreutils, findutils, and grep packaged as a single multi-call binary for Windows. The tool provides familiar UNIX commands like ls, cat, cp, grep, and find that work identically across Linux, macOS, WSL, and now native Windows. Available via WinGet (winget install Microsoft.Coreutils), the project is in preview and requires PowerShell 7.4+, scoring 192 points on Hacker News.

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