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Coreutils - rejected feature requests

Quality: 9/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

GNU Coreutils the rejected feature requests page documents numerous proposals for coreutils commands such as cat, chmod, cp, cut, date, dd, df, du, join, ls, mv, rm, shred, sort, stat, sum, touch, uniq, wc and new commands. Each item lists linked mailing list discussions and the rationale for rejecting the ideas, illustrating how GNU Coreutils prioritizes stability, simplicity, and compatibility over incremental feature bloat.

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