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										 |  |  | sbase - suckless unix tools | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | sbase  is a  collection of  unix  tools that  are inherently  portable | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | across UNIX and UNIX-like systems. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | The following programs are currently implemented: | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  |     basename cal  cat chgrp chmod chown  chroot cksum cmp comm  cp cut | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |     date dirname du  echo env expand false fold grep  head hostname id | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |     kill ln  ls mc md5sum mkdir  mkfifo mktemp mv nice  nl nohup paste | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |     printenv  pwd readlink  renice rm  rmdir sleep  setsid sort  split | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |     sponge strings sync  tail tar tee test touch tr  true tty uudecode | 
					
						
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										 |  |  |     uuencode  uname   unexpand  uniq  unlink  seq   sha1sum  sha256sum | 
					
						
							|  |  |  |     sha512sum wc xargs yes | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | sbase is mostly following POSIX but we deviate wherever we think it is | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | The  complement of  sbase  is  ubase[1] which  is  Linux-specific  and | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | provides all  the non-portable tools.   Together they are  intended to | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | form a base system similar to busybox but much smaller and suckless. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Building | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | To  build sbase,  simply  type  make.  You  may  have  to fiddle  with | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | config.mk depending on your system. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | You  can  also  build  sbase-box,  which  generates  a  single  binary | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | containing  all  the  required  tools.    You  can  then  symlink  the | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | individual tools to sbase-box. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Ideally you will  want to statically link sbase.  If  you are on Linux | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | we recommend using musl-libc[2]. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | Portability | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | sbase has been  compiled on a variety of  different operating systems, | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | including Linux, *BSD, OSX, Haiku, Solaris, SCO OpenServer and others. | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | sbase  also compiles  and runs  on minix3  with slight  modifications. | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | They do  not provide mmap()/munmap()  so you need to  use minix_mmap() | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | and minix_munmap() respectively. | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | Various combinations of operating  systems and architectures have also | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | been built. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | You can build sbase with gcc, clang, tcc, nwcc and pcc. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | [1] http://git.suckless.org/ubase/ | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | [2] http://www.musl-libc.org/ |