They miss an important bit: strings. coreutils cannot deal with unicode strings, just ASCIIZ. Nowadays one should not assume strings are ASCII or Latin1 only. Searching must include normalization, -i must use proper case mappings, sort ordering need to be observed, ...
My fork on GitHub adds unicode support and -g progress-bar for mv and cp.
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They miss an important bit: strings. coreutils cannot deal with unicode strings, just ASCIIZ. Nowadays one should not assume strings are ASCII or Latin1 only. Searching must include normalization, -i must use proper case mappings, sort ordering need to be observed, ... My fork on GitHub adds unicode support and -g progress-bar for mv and cp.