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uutils is a community-driven, open-source effort maintained by volunteers around the world. There is no company behind it, just contributors who care about the future of foundational command-line tools.

Everything happens in the open on [GitHub](https://github.com/uutils), and newcomers are genuinely welcome. Many of our contributors landed their first-ever open-source patch on a uutils project, and we are happy to help you do the same.

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      <a class="prow" href="https://github.com/sylvestre"><span class="name">Sylvestre Ledru</span><span class="desc">project founder and overall lead</span><span class="st st-ready">BDFL</span></a>
      <a class="prow" href="https://github.com/cakebaker"><span class="name">Daniel Hofstetter</span><span class="desc">maintainer across the uutils projects</span><span class="st st-beta">maintainer</span></a>
      <a class="prow" href="https://github.com/dspinellis"><span class="name">Diomidis Spinellis</span><span class="desc">created uutils <code>sed</code></span><span class="st st-alpha">sed</span></a>
      <a class="prow" href="https://github.com/pierre-warnier"><span class="name">Pierre Warnier</span><span class="desc">created uutils <code>shadow</code></span><span class="st st-alpha">shadow</span></a>
      <a class="prow" href="https://github.com/kaladron"><span class="name">Jeff Bailey</span><span class="desc">uutils <code>tar</code> maintainer</span><span class="st st-alpha">tar</span></a>
      <a class="prow" href="https://github.com/lhecker"><span class="name">Leonard Hecker</span><span class="desc">created uutils <code>grep</code></span><span class="st st-alpha">grep</span></a>
      <a class="prow" href="https://github.com/tertsdiepraam"><span class="name">Terts Diepraam</span><span class="desc">former maintainer, led uutils <code>coreutils</code></span><span class="st st-wip">alumni</span></a>
      <a class="prow" href="https://github.com/rivy"><span class="name">Roy Ivy III</span><span class="desc">former uutils <code>coreutils</code> maintainer</span><span class="st st-wip">alumni</span></a>
      <a class="prow" href="https://github.com/Arcterus"><span class="name">Alex Lyon</span><span class="desc">former uutils <code>coreutils</code> maintainer</span><span class="st st-wip">alumni</span></a>
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uutils is built by far more people than this list. See the full roster of contributors on each project's [GitHub repository](https://github.com/uutils).