Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils

Written by Michael Larabel in Microsoft on 3 June 2026 at 05:47 AM EDT. 71 Comments

As another interesting takeaway from this week's Microsoft Build 2026 conference beyond their open-source Intelligent Terminal project is Coreutils for Windows. Microsoft is maintaining a fork of Rust Coreutils for Windows to ease the developer experience across Windows / WSL / macOS / Linux.

Coreutils for Windows is Microsoft's maintained build of the Rust Coreutils (uutils) project along with findutils and grep. The newly-established microsoft/coreutils on GitHub argues it as:

"A Microsoft-maintained build of uutils/coreutils, findutils, and grep packaged as a single multi-call binary for Windows. The goal is to make moving between Linux, macOS, WSL, containers, and Windows frictionless: the same commands, flags, and pipelines work the same way, so existing scripts carry over without translation."

Coreutils for Windows is currently considered in preview form.

👁 Microsoft Coreutils for Windows

The Microsoft documentation adds more about the Coreutils for Windows experience. Microsoft Coreutils for Windows can also be easily installed now using WinGet.

👁 Microsoft Coreutils

The times we live in with Microsoft now maintaining a Rust Coreutils build for Windows.