CoreTilus
Coretilus is a parody of GNU Coreutils — a playful collection of typo-triggered command-line tools written in Rust like https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
Whenever you mistype something like git → gti or grep → grpe, Coretilus answers instead of complaining.
Each binary is intentionally useless, funny, or just delightfully absurd.
🔁 What does “tilus” mean?
t.i.l.u.s. = Tilus Is Ludicrously Useless Stuff
- A recursive acronym (because of course it is).
- It reflects the project’s spirit — ridiculously, gloriously pointless utilities.
- It's also
utilswith a typo.
🧩 Included commands
| Command | Inspired by | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
sl |
ls |
✅ - DONE | The legendary Steam Locomotive.Rust port of https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl |
gti |
git |
✅ - DONE | “Start your engine!” before committing.Rust port of https://github.com/rwos/gti |
mr |
rm |
🕓 - PLANNED | Land the rocket without crashing it. |
pc |
cp |
🕓 - PLANNED | Copy file from Floppy to IDE using a 486 CPU. |
grpe |
grep |
🕓 - PLANNED | Searches nothing and finds everything. |
dog |
dig |
🕓 - PLANNED | Dogs can dig. |
| ...adn | more | 🕓 - PLANNED | Coming soon, one typo at a time. |
| ...yuor | own ideas | 🕓 - PLANNED | Open an issue or a PR. |
☑️ TODOs
- Add links/credits to original ascii authors
- Add/Generate man pages
- Create topydex command
- Complete tests and increate test coverage
- Add brew support
💻 Install and usage
There are multiple way to install coretilus
GitHub release artifacts
Go to https://github.com/titilambert/coretilus/releases and download the archive depending on your environment, then extract it like
tar xvf coretilus-v0.0.2-linux_x86_64.tar.gz
sl
gti
Then move the binaries to folder included in you $PATH, ie /usr/local/bin
sudo cp -v sl gti /usr/local/bin/
Using deb package
Go to https://github.com/titilambert/coretilus/releases and download the package depending on your environment, then install it:
sudo dpkg -i coretilus_0.0.2-1_amd64.deb
Using rpm package
Go to https://github.com/titilambert/coretilus/releases and download the package depending on your environment, then install it:
sudo dnf install coretilus_0.0.2-1_amd64.deb
Using cargo
cargo install coretilus
Ensure $HOME/.cargo/bin is in your $PATH, then you can use the binaries do some typos
gti
sl
...
MacOs with brew
brew tap titilambert/tap
brew install coretilus
⚙️ Build
RUSTFLAGS="-C target-feature=+crt-static"
🧪 Run tests
📘 Generate docs