diff --git a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
index 3a5a09a66..c4fda8c07 100644
--- a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ failure_derive = { version = "0.1.1", optional = true }
 time = { version = "0.1.40", optional = true }
 data-encoding = { version = "^2.1", optional = true }
 libc = { version = "0.2.42", optional = true }
+wild = "1.0.1"
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "redox")'.dependencies]
 termion = "1.5"
diff --git a/src/uucore/lib.rs b/src/uucore/lib.rs
index bfa111564..8cc7494fe 100644
--- a/src/uucore/lib.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/lib.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+extern crate wild;
+
+pub fn args() -> Box<Iterator<Item=String>> {
+    Box::new( wild::args().map(|s| s.into_string().unwrap()) )
+}
+
+pub fn args_os() -> Box<Iterator<Item=std::ffi::OsString>> {
+    Box::new( wild::args() )
+}
+
 #[cfg(feature = "libc")]
 pub extern crate libc;
 #[cfg(feature = "winapi")]