Issues

• fmt: stops at an unreadable file operand and says only 'read error' for a directory

  U - fmt
  uutils/coreutils#15922 · Filter by author emirmrkaljevic opened on Oct 27, 2026

• Unhelpful error messages from mv and cp

  U - cpU - mv
  uutils/coreutils#15920 · Filter by author Natureshadow opened on Oct 27, 2026

• quoting: ls --quoting-style=shell should quote lone braces

  U - ls
  uutils/coreutils#15918 · Filter by author RenjiSann opened on Oct 27, 2026

• shuf: exhausted random source destroys the input during an in-place shuffle

  U - shuf
  uutils/coreutils#15915 · Filter by author limadog9 opened on Oct 27, 2026

• paste: serial mode exhausts file descriptors by opening every input simultaneously

  U - paste
  uutils/coreutils#15903 · Filter by author limadog9 opened on Oct 27, 2026

• dep, test_mv_cross_device_xattr_failure_keeps_the_rest fails with rustix 1.1.6

  U - mv
  uutils/coreutils#15902 · Filter by author oech3 opened on Oct 27, 2026
  3

• sort -m: output hard link truncates input and silently loses data

  U - sort
  uutils/coreutils#15901 · Filter by author limadog9 opened on Oct 27, 2026

• nl: numbering patterns use Rust regex syntax instead of documented BRE

  U - nl
  uutils/coreutils#15900 · Filter by author limadog9 opened on Oct 27, 2026

• unexpand: final newline prevents conversion of leading Unicode blanks

  U - unexpand
  uutils/coreutils#15898 · Filter by author limadog9 opened on Oct 27, 2026

• od: radix-prefixed T, P and E byte counts fail on 32-bit targets

  U - od
  uutils/coreutils#15896 · Filter by author kmehltretter82 opened on Oct 27, 2026

• mv: a failed cross-device move deletes the existing destination

  U - mv
  uutils/coreutils#15890 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 26, 2026

• split: -e changes nonempty chunks with -n l/N

  U - split
  uutils/coreutils#15886 · Filter by author limadog9 opened on Oct 26, 2026

• chmod -v: missing 'could not be accessed' line for operands that can't be stat'ed

  U - chmod
  uutils/coreutils#15883 · Filter by author emirmrkaljevic opened on Oct 26, 2026

• shred: should not refuse writing to a device

  U - shred
  uutils/coreutils#15873 · Filter by author xilwen opened on Oct 26, 2026

• chown, chgrp: 'cannot dereference' instead of 'cannot access' for a missing operand

  U - chgrpU - chown
  uutils/coreutils#15867 · Filter by author emirmrkaljevic opened on Oct 26, 2026

• ptx: contexts stop at line ends without -S, and -S drops the sentence end

  uutils/coreutils#15864 · Filter by author jayhemnani9910 opened on Oct 26, 2026

• shred: handle '-' as stdout in WASM

  U - shred
  uutils/coreutils#15850 · Filter by author RenjiSann opened on Oct 26, 2026

• timeout stops honoring the duration and blocks further signals after it relays one signal

  U - timeout
  uutils/coreutils#15843 · Filter by author m4r1k opened on Oct 25, 2026

• replace nix::pty::openpty with rustix_openpty::openpty

  uutils/coreutils#15834 · Filter by author xtqqczze opened on Oct 25, 2026
  3

  

• Use Arch's busybox at SMACK CI

  good first issue
  uutils/coreutils#15828 · Filter by author oech3 opened on Oct 25, 2026

• tests(redox): more, stty, nohup fail to compile

  P - RedoxU - moreU - nohupU - stty
  uutils/coreutils#15827 · Filter by author xtqqczze opened on Oct 25, 2026
  1

• mv: -n and --update=none report 'are the same file' and exit 1; GNU exits 0

  U - mv
  uutils/coreutils#15824 · Filter by author emirmrkaljevic opened on Oct 25, 2026

• split: writes into planted output files despite fs.protected_regular

  good first issueI - Incorrectoss-scannerU - split
  uutils/coreutils#15821 · Filter by author sylvestre opened on Oct 25, 2026
  1

• split: -b and -l ignore short writes, exit 0 with a truncated last chunk

  good first issueI - Incorrectoss-scannerU - split
  uutils/coreutils#15820 · Filter by author sylvestre opened on Oct 25, 2026
  1

• dd: unblock conversion splits records at read boundaries

  good first issueI - Incorrectoss-scannerU - dd
  uutils/coreutils#15818 · Filter by author sylvestre opened on Oct 25, 2026