uutils · sylvestre · Sep 18, 2026 · Sep 18, 2026 · Sep 18, 2026
diff --git a/fuzz/fuzz_targets/fuzz_env.rs b/fuzz/fuzz_targets/fuzz_env.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 //
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
+
 // spell-checker:ignore chdir putenv
 
 #![no_main]

diff --git a/src/uu/chroot/src/chroot.rs b/src/uu/chroot/src/chroot.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
 // spell-checker:ignore (ToDO) NEWROOT Userspec chrooting chroots chdir pstatus repointed
+
 mod error;
 
 use crate::error::ChrootError;

diff --git a/src/uu/csplit/src/csplit.rs b/src/uu/csplit/src/csplit.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
 // spell-checker:ignore rustdoc
+
 #![allow(rustdoc::private_intra_doc_links)]
 
 use std::borrow::Borrow;

diff --git a/src/uu/env/src/split_iterator.rs b/src/uu/env/src/split_iterator.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+// spell-checker:ignore (words) Tomasz Miąsko rntfv FFFD varname
+
 // This file is based on work from Tomasz Miąsko who published it as "shell_words" crate,
 // licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE>
 // or the MIT license <LICENSE-MIT>, at your option.
@@ -14,7 +16,6 @@
 //! Apart from the grammar differences, there is a new feature integrated: $VARIABLE expansion.
 //!
 //! [GNU env] <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/env-invocation.html#g_t_002dS_002f_002d_002dsplit_002dstring-syntax>
-// spell-checker:ignore (words) Tomasz Miąsko rntfv FFFD varname
 
 #![forbid(unsafe_code)]
 

diff --git a/src/uu/rm/src/platform/unix.rs b/src/uu/rm/src/platform/unix.rs
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
-// Unix-specific implementations for the rm utility
-
 // spell-checker:ignore fstatat unlinkat statx behaviour automount
 
+// Unix-specific implementations for the rm utility
+
 use indicatif::ProgressBar;
 use std::ffi::{OsStr, OsString};
 use std::fs;

diff --git a/src/uu/sort/src/chunks.rs b/src/uu/sort/src/chunks.rs
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+// spell-checker:ignore ELEMS
+
 //! Utilities for reading files as chunks.
 
-// spell-checker:ignore ELEMS
 #![allow(dead_code)]
 // Ignores non-used warning for `borrow_buffer` in `Chunk`
 

diff --git a/src/uu/sort/src/sort.rs b/src/uu/sort/src/sort.rs
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+// spell-checker:ignore (misc) kKMGTPEZYRQ HFKJFK Mbdfhn getrlimit Nofile rlim bigdecimal extendedbigdecimal hexdigit behaviour keydef GETFD localeconv foldhash
+// spell-checker:ignore (misc) uppercased qsort getmonth juin juil
+
 // Although these links don't always seem to describe reality, check out the POSIX and GNU specs:
 // https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sort.html
 // https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/sort-invocation.html
 
-// spell-checker:ignore (misc) kKMGTPEZYRQ HFKJFK Mbdfhn getrlimit Nofile rlim bigdecimal extendedbigdecimal hexdigit behaviour keydef GETFD localeconv foldhash
-// spell-checker:ignore (misc) uppercased qsort getmonth juin juil
-
 mod buffer_hint;
 mod check;
 mod chunks;

diff --git a/src/uu/tail/src/chunks.rs b/src/uu/tail/src/chunks.rs
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+// spell-checker:ignore (ToDO) filehandle BUFSIZ
+
 //! Iterating over a file by chunks, either starting at the end of the file with [`ReverseChunks`]
 //! or at the end of piped stdin with [`LinesChunk`] or [`BytesChunk`].
 //!
 //! Use [`ReverseChunks::new`] to create a new iterator over chunks of bytes from the file.
 
-// spell-checker:ignore (ToDO) filehandle BUFSIZ
-
 use std::collections::VecDeque;
 use std::fs::File;
 use std::io::{BufRead, Read, Seek, SeekFrom, Write};

diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features.rs
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
-// features ~ feature-gated modules (core/bundler file)
-//
 // spell-checker:ignore (features) extendedbigdecimal logind
 
+// features ~ feature-gated modules (core/bundler file)
+
 #[cfg(feature = "backup-control")]
 pub mod backup_control;
 #[cfg(feature = "benchmark")]

diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/backup_control.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/backup_control.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+// spell-checker:ignore backupopt
+
 //! Implement GNU-style backup functionality.
 //!
 //! This module implements the backup functionality as described in the [GNU
@@ -80,8 +82,6 @@
 //! }
 //! ```
 
-// spell-checker:ignore backupopt
-
 use crate::{
     display::Quotable,
     error::{UError, UResult},

diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/diagnostics.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/diagnostics.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+// spell-checker:ignore étage replacen
+
 //! Render an error against the argument list it came from.
 //!
 //! Utilities whose arguments *are* the expression they evaluate — `test`, `expr`
@@ -34,8 +36,6 @@
 //! ───╯
 //! ```
 
-// spell-checker:ignore étage replacen
-
 use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::env;
 use std::ffi::{OsStr, OsString};

diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fs.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fs.rs
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
-//! Set of functions to manage regular files, special files, and links.
-
 // spell-checker:ignore backport Ioctl absolutized linkat symlinkat renameat unlinkat openat urandom NOFOLLOW CLOEXEC RDONLY
 
+//! Set of functions to manage regular files, special files, and links.
+
 #[cfg(all(unix, not(target_os = "haiku")))]
 pub use libc::{major, makedev, minor};
 use std::collections::HashSet;

diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsext/mod.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsext/mod.rs
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
-//! Set of functions to manage file systems
-
 // spell-checker:ignore DATETIME getmntinfo subsecond (fs) cifs smbfs
 
+//! Set of functions to manage file systems
+
 #[cfg(windows)]
 mod windows;
 

diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsxattr.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsxattr.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 // spell-checker:ignore getxattr posix_acl_default posix_acl_access ENOTSUP EOPNOTSUPP renamer
 
 //! Set of functions to manage xattr on files and dirs
+
 use itertools::Itertools;
 use rustc_hash::FxHashMap;
 use std::ffi::{OsStr, OsString};

diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/mode.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/mode.rs
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
-//! Set of functions to parse modes
-
 // spell-checker:ignore (vars) fperm srwx
 
+//! Set of functions to parse modes
+
 use std::fmt::{self, Display};
 use std::ops::Range;
 

diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/parser/num_parser.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/parser/num_parser.rs
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
-//! Utilities for parsing numbers in various formats
-
 // spell-checker:ignore powf copysign prec ilog inity infinit infs bigdecimal extendedbigdecimal biguint underflowed muls
 
+//! Utilities for parsing numbers in various formats
+
 use bigdecimal::{
     BigDecimal,
     num_bigint::{BigInt, BigUint, Sign},

diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/perms.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/perms.rs
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
-//! Common functions to manage permissions
-
 // spell-checker:ignore (jargon) TOCTOU fchownat fchown
 
+//! Common functions to manage permissions
+
 use crate::display::Quotable;
 use crate::error::{UResult, USimpleError, strip_errno};
 pub use crate::features::entries;

diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/safe_traversal.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/safe_traversal.rs
@@ -3,17 +3,16 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
-//
-// Safe directory traversal using openat() and related syscalls
-// This module provides TOCTOU-safe filesystem operations for recursive traversal
-//
-// Available on Unix
-//
 // spell-checker:ignore CLOEXEC RDONLY TOCTOU closedir dirp fdopendir fstatat openat REMOVEDIR unlinkat smallfile
 // spell-checker:ignore RAII dirfd fchownat fchown FchmodatFlags fchmodat fchmod mkdirat CREAT WRONLY ELOOP ENOTDIR EXCL EEXIST
 // spell-checker:ignore atimensec mtimensec ctimensec opath chmods fakeroot fakechroot
 // spell-checker:ignore LARGEFILE
 
+// Safe directory traversal using openat() and related syscalls
+// This module provides TOCTOU-safe filesystem operations for recursive traversal
+//
+// Available on Unix
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStringExt;
 

diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/lib.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/lib.rs
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+// spell-checker:ignore sigaction SIGBUS SIGSEGV extendedbigdecimal myutil logind
+
 //! library ~ (core/bundler file)
+
 // #![deny(missing_docs)] //TODO: enable this
-//
-// spell-checker:ignore sigaction SIGBUS SIGSEGV extendedbigdecimal myutil logind
 
 // * feature-gated external crates (re-shared as public internal modules)
 #[cfg(feature = "libc")]

diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/macros.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/macros.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+// spell-checker:ignore sourcepath targetpath rustdoc
+
 //! Macros for the uucore utilities.
 //!
 //! This module bundles all macros used across the uucore utilities. These
@@ -31,8 +33,6 @@
 //!   - From custom messages: [`crate::show_error!`]
 //! - Print warnings: [`crate::show_warning!`]
 
-// spell-checker:ignore sourcepath targetpath rustdoc
-
 use std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool;
 
 // This file is part of the uutils coreutils package.

diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/mods/error.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/mods/error.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+// spell-checker:ignore uioerror rustdoc
+
 //! All utils return exit with an exit code. Usually, the following scheme is used:
 //! * `0`: succeeded
 //! * `1`: minor problems
@@ -53,8 +55,6 @@
 //! * Using [`ExitCode`] is not recommended but can be useful for converting utils to use
 //!   [`UResult`].
 
-// spell-checker:ignore uioerror rustdoc
-
 use std::{
     cell::Cell,
     error::Error,

diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_b2sum.rs b/tests/by-util/test_b2sum.rs
@@ -3,12 +3,14 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+// spell-checker:ignore checkfile, testf, ntestf
+
 use rstest::rstest;
 
 use uutests::new_ucmd;
 use uutests::util::TestScenario;
 use uutests::util_name;
-// spell-checker:ignore checkfile, testf, ntestf
+
 macro_rules! get_hash(
     ($str:expr) => (
         $str.split(' ').collect::<Vec<&str>>()[0]

diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_cp.rs b/tests/by-util/test_cp.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 // spell-checker:ignore (flags) reflink (fs) tmpfs (linux) filefrag rlimit Rlim Nofile clob btrfs neve ROOTDIR USERDIR outfile subvolume uufs xattrs ELOOP
 // spell-checker:ignore bdfl hlsl IRWXO IRWXG nconfined matchpathcon libselinux-devel prwx doesnotexist reftests subdirs mksocket srwx dstlink mcstransd
+
 #[cfg(unix)]
 use rstest::rstest;
 use uucore::display::Quotable;

diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_factor.rs b/tests/by-util/test_factor.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
 // spell-checker:ignore (methods) hexdigest funcs nprimes cmdline
+
 #![allow(
     clippy::similar_names,
     clippy::cast_possible_truncation,

diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_fmt.rs b/tests/by-util/test_fmt.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
 // spell-checker:ignore plass samp FFFD
+
 #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
 use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStringExt;
 use uutests::new_ucmd;

diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_md5sum.rs b/tests/by-util/test_md5sum.rs
@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+// spell-checker:ignore checkfile, testf, ntestf
+
 use uutests::new_ucmd;
 use uutests::util::TestScenario;
 use uutests::util_name;
-// spell-checker:ignore checkfile, testf, ntestf
+
 macro_rules! get_hash(
     ($str:expr) => (
         $str.split(' ').collect::<Vec<&str>>()[0]

diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_paste.rs b/tests/by-util/test_paste.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
 // spell-checker:ignore bsdutils toybox
+
 #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
 use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStringExt;
 use uutests::at_and_ucmd;

diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_sha1sum.rs b/tests/by-util/test_sha1sum.rs
@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+// spell-checker:ignore checkfile, testf, ntestf
+
 use uutests::new_ucmd;
 use uutests::util::TestScenario;
 use uutests::util_name;
-// spell-checker:ignore checkfile, testf, ntestf
+
 macro_rules! get_hash(
     ($str:expr) => (
         $str.split(' ').collect::<Vec<&str>>()[0]

diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_sha224sum.rs b/tests/by-util/test_sha224sum.rs
@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
-use uutests::new_ucmd;
 // spell-checker:ignore checkfile, testf, ntestf
+
+use uutests::new_ucmd;
+
 macro_rules! get_hash(
     ($str:expr) => (
         $str.split(' ').collect::<Vec<&str>>()[0]

diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_sha256sum.rs b/tests/by-util/test_sha256sum.rs
@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+// spell-checker:ignore checkfile, testf, ntestf, heic
+
 use uutests::new_ucmd;
 use uutests::util::TestScenario;
 use uutests::util_name;
-// spell-checker:ignore checkfile, testf, ntestf, heic
+
 macro_rules! get_hash(
     ($str:expr) => (
         $str.split(' ').collect::<Vec<&str>>()[0]