I want use coreutils for day-to-day work only in cmd #151

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1. Leonard Hecker (lhecker)

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   C-bugIt shouldn't be doing this.It shouldn't be doing this.

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   on Jul 21, 2026
2. a-rookie-of-C-language commented on Jul 21, 2026

   

   arookieofc (a-rookie-of-C-language)

   on Jul 21, 2026

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   Considering coreutils’s responsibilities, your issue seems like a shell not coreuitls.
   In this repo we provide a completely shell includes auto-complete,bash (via rubash, compatible with zsh plugins ,history via reedline
   In addition you can set any coreutils like microsoft/coreutils uutils/coreutils or unixwin/winuxcmd
3. starfishpatkhoo commented on Jul 23, 2026

   

   Patrick Khoo (starfishpatkhoo)

   on Jul 23, 2026

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   You can just do this for cmd (assuming coreutils is in your %PATH%).

   Create a file called coreutils_doskey_macros.txt somewhere with the following:

   [=coreutils [ $*
   arch=coreutils arch $*
   b2sum=coreutils b2sum $*
   base32=coreutils base32 $*
   base64=coreutils base64 $*
   basename=coreutils basename $*
   basenc=coreutils basenc $*
   cat=coreutils cat $*
   cksum=coreutils cksum $*
   comm=coreutils comm $*
   coreutils-manager=coreutils coreutils-manager $*
   cp=coreutils cp $*
   csplit=coreutils csplit $*
   cut=coreutils cut $*
   date=coreutils date $*
   df=coreutils df $*
   dirname=coreutils dirname $*
   du=coreutils du $*
   echo=coreutils echo $*
   env=coreutils env $*
   expr=coreutils expr $*
   factor=coreutils factor $*
   false=coreutils false $*
   find=coreutils find $*
   fmt=coreutils fmt $*
   fold=coreutils fold $*
   grep=coreutils grep $*
   head=coreutils head $*
   hostname=coreutils hostname $*
   join=coreutils join $*
   link=coreutils link $*
   ln=coreutils ln $*
   ls=coreutils ls $*
   md5sum=coreutils md5sum $*
   mkdir=coreutils mkdir $*
   mktemp=coreutils mktemp $*
   mv=coreutils mv $*
   nl=coreutils nl $*
   nproc=coreutils nproc $*
   numfmt=coreutils numfmt $*
   od=coreutils od $*
   paste=coreutils paste $*
   pathchk=coreutils pathchk $*
   pr=coreutils pr $*
   printenv=coreutils printenv $*
   printf=coreutils printf $*
   ptx=coreutils ptx $*
   pwd=coreutils pwd $*
   readlink=coreutils readlink $*
   realpath=coreutils realpath $*
   rm=coreutils rm $*
   rmdir=coreutils rmdir $*
   seq=coreutils seq $*
   sha1sum=coreutils sha1sum $*
   sha224sum=coreutils sha224sum $*
   sha256sum=coreutils sha256sum $*
   sha384sum=coreutils sha384sum $*
   sha512sum=coreutils sha512sum $*
   shuf=coreutils shuf $*
   sleep=coreutils sleep $*
   sort=coreutils sort $*
   split=coreutils split $*
   stat=coreutils stat $*
   sum=coreutils sum $*
   tac=coreutils tac $*
   tail=coreutils tail $*
   tee=coreutils tee $*
   test=coreutils test $*
   touch=coreutils touch $*
   tr=coreutils tr $*
   true=coreutils true $*
   truncate=coreutils truncate $*
   tsort=coreutils tsort $*
   unexpand=coreutils unexpand $*
   uniq=coreutils uniq $*
   unlink=coreutils unlink $*
   uptime=coreutils uptime $*
   wc=coreutils wc $*
   xargs=coreutils xargs $*
   yes=coreutils yes $*
   

   Then in your cmd startup/init batch file, just add or run the command:

   doskey /macrofile=path\to\coreutils_doskey_macros.txt
   

   Feel free to edit/adjust as you require.