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sbase - suckless unix tools
===========================
sbase is a collection of unix tools that are inherently portable
across UNIX and UNIX-like systems.
Add column to mark UTF-8 support One major milestone is to have the sbase-tools supporting UTF-8. Tools like cut(1) with the -n flag don't make sense otherwise. And while the gnu coreutils cut(1) blatantly ignores such an important aspect, we will not tolerate this madness and mark it as a TODO in the main README. Since most tools inherently support UTF-8 anyway, this just concerns tools which mangle with text or search in it in special ways.
2015-01-18 18:36:13 +00:00
The following tools are implemented ('*' == finished, '#' == UTF-8 support,
Add audit-section to README Okay, so why another section? The finished-section applies to general feature-completeness and manual status. It somehow is not an indicator for general code- clarity, so the audited-column reflects a thorough audit of the underlying code and optimization. Take a look at the upcoming basename(1)-patch for an example on how this goes.
2015-02-28 13:42:26 +00:00
'=' == implicit UTF-8 support, '|' == audited):
Add an easier to edit "table" of tools in README We need to go through the tools and update this table to reflect current state.
2014-11-20 23:01:56 +00:00
Audit basename(1) 1) be stricter which number of arguments is accepted (1 or 2) 2) basename already returns a pointer to "." is argv[0] is "" 3) No need to check for *p != '/', because basename() only returns a string beginning with '/' which has length 1, so if strlen(p) == 1, the only way for suffix to be "evaluated" is for off to be > 0, being equal to suffix being "", but "" != "/". 4) don't calculate strlen twice for each string. Store it in a ssize_t and check if it's > 0.
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UTILITY POSIX 2008 COMPLIANT MISSING OPTIONS
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=*| basename yes none
Add audit-section to README Okay, so why another section? The finished-section applies to general feature-completeness and manual status. It somehow is not an indicator for general code- clarity, so the audited-column reflects a thorough audit of the underlying code and optimization. Take a look at the upcoming basename(1)-patch for an example on how this goes.
2015-02-28 13:42:26 +00:00
=* cal yes none
=* cat yes none
=* chgrp yes none
=* chmod yes none
=* chown yes none
=* chroot non-posix none
=* cksum yes none
=* cmp yes none
#* cols non-posix none
=* comm yes none
= cp yes none (-i)
=* cron non-posix none
#* cut yes none
=* date yes -u
=* dirname yes none
=* du yes none
=* echo yes none
=* env yes none
#* expand yes none
#* expr yes none
=* false yes none
= find yes none
#* fold yes none
=* grep yes none
=* head yes none
=* hostname non-posix none
=* kill yes none
=* link yes none
=* ln yes none
=* logger yes none
=* logname yes none
= ls no (-C), -S, -f, -m, -s, -x
=* md5sum non-posix none
=* mkdir yes none
=* mkfifo yes none
=* mktemp non-posix none
=* mv yes none (-i)
=* nice yes none
= nl no -d, -f, -h, -l, -p
=* nohup yes none
#* paste yes none
=* printenv non-posix none
#* printf yes none
=* pwd yes none
= readlink non-posix none
=* renice yes none
=* rm yes none (-i)
=* rmdir yes none
# sed
seq non-posix none
=* setsid non-posix none
= sha1sum non-posix none
= sha256sum non-posix none
= sha512sum non-posix none
=* sleep yes none
sort no -m, -o, -d, -f, -i
=* split yes none
=* sponge non-posix none
#* strings yes none
=* sync non-posix none
=* tail yes none
=* tar non-posix none
=* tee yes none
=* test yes none
= time no none (incorrect exit status)
=* touch yes none
#* tr yes none
=* true yes none
=* tty yes none
=* uname yes none
#* unexpand yes none
=* uniq yes none
=* unlink yes none
=* uudecode yes none
=* uuencode yes none
#* wc yes none
= xargs no -I, -L, -p, -s, -t, -x
=* yes non-posix none
Add an easier to edit "table" of tools in README We need to go through the tools and update this table to reflect current state.
2014-11-20 23:01:56 +00:00
Minor fix for README
2014-02-12 18:39:13 +00:00
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.
Building
--------
To build sbase, simply type make. You may have to fiddle with
config.mk depending on your system.
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.
Ideally you will want to statically link sbase. If you are on Linux
we recommend using musl-libc[2].
Portability
-----------
sbase has been compiled on a variety of different operating systems,
including Linux, *BSD, OSX, Haiku, Solaris, SCO OpenServer and others.
Various combinations of operating systems and architectures have also
been built.
You can build sbase with gcc, clang, tcc, nwcc and pcc.
[1] http://git.suckless.org/ubase/
[2] http://www.musl-libc.org/
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