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It would be useful to re-implement the basic UNIX utilities (at least the ones in BusyBox) in Rust. But without all the extra bells and whistles this program has. Lots of embedded systems need a reliable set of tools.

An exploit was discovered in "files" recently. Somebody put a decoder for Linux executable files in it, creating a security hole.



There is uutils [1], which I believe is doing exactly what you are saying.

[1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils


What is 'files'?


GNU "strings" may have been meant, as it had this issue recently.


Thanks for clarifying.


Right, got that wrong.




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