Coreutils - rejected feature requests (original) (raw)


Some of the hardest work on coreutils is knowing what to reject and providing appropriate justification to the contributors.

The contributions below while all good ideas, were not included for various reasons detailed on the linked mailing list discussions.

cat chmod cp cut date dd df du join ls mv rm shred sort stat *sum touch uniq wc misc New commands

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