coreutils ☆

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Description:
GNU File, Shell, and Text utilities

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 9.9@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: cli utilities gnu file-management text-processing

Install: brew install coreutils

About:
GNU Coreutils is a collection of essential command-line utilities for file, shell, and text manipulation. It provides robust, standardized versions of common tools like ls, cp, and grep, offering enhanced features and POSIX compliance. This package is a fundamental component for developers and system administrators working in Unix-like environments.

Key Features:

Comprehensive suite of over 100 core command-line utilities
Provides 'g' prefixed commands to avoid conflicts with macOS system tools
Includes enhanced versions of standard file and text processing commands
Essential for shell scripting and system administration tasks

Use Cases:

Performing advanced file and directory operations in the terminal
Writing portable and powerful shell scripts
Text processing and data stream manipulation

Alternatives:

macOS native utilities – Coreutils provides GNU versions with more features and flags than the BSD-based tools included with macOS.

License: GPL-3.0-or-later

Dependencies: gmp, acl, attr

Bottles available for: arm64_tahoe, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, sonoma, arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

Important Notes:

All commands have been installed with the prefix "g".
If you need to use these commands with their normal names, you can add a "gnubin" directory to your PATH with:
  PATH="$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"

Version History

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Nov 16, 2025 6:27pm	VERSION_BUMP	d62ffcbc
Nov 11, 2025 1:41pm	VERSION_BUMP	e16a8f61
Sep 26, 2025 3:40pm	VERSION_BUMP	30ec13cf
Sep 22, 2025 7:42pm	VERSION_BUMP	2d42bcc5
Sep 10, 2025 9:35pm	VERSION_BUMP	23483699
Jan 2, 2025 7:44pm	VERSION_BUMP	ce35520e