Microsoft's Coreutils project brings Linux commands to Windows

2026-06-04

Microsoft announced Coreutils for Windows at Build 2026, a WinGet-installable package built on the Rust-based uutils project that ships Linux utilities like cat, cp, find, grep, ls, and rm as a single coreutils.exe binary fronted by NTFS hardlinks, while omitting POSIX-dependent commands such as chmod, chown, kill, and whoami.