Is there a way to use coreutils as a library? #6103
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Hi, I am thinking is there a way to use coreutils as a library? Because I am trying to develop a binary command, for all major platforms: MacOS,Linux and Windows. In Windows, it's such a common requirements that we create directory(mkdir), create symlink(ln), etc. I want to embed coreutils, so I don't have to re-implement these things again, or invoke a child-process to do it. |
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Yes, in two ways. It's possible to call the The second way is to do some argument parsing yourself and then call the util. This is how nushell uses coreutils. We have only exposed the API for that in a few utils though. |
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Thank you for the instant reply! |
Yes, in two ways. It's possible to call the
uumainmethod which will just run the util. This is what the multicall binary uses as well. However, note that we might change that API without warning.The second way is to do some argument parsing yourself and then call the util. This is how nushell uses coreutils. We have only exposed the API for that in a few utils though.