sbase - suckless unix tools =========================== sbase is a collection of unix tools that are inherently portable across UNIX and UNIX-like systems. The following tools are implemented ('*' == finished, '#' == UTF-8 support, '=' == implicit UTF-8 support, '|' == audited, () == petty flag): UTILITY POSIX 2008 COMPLIANT MISSING OPTIONS ------- -------------------- --------------- =*| basename yes none =*| 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 col yes none =*| comm yes none =*| cp yes none (-i) =*| cron non-posix none #*| cut yes none =*| date yes none =*| 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 none (-C, -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 yes none =*| 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 yes none =*| 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 yes none =*| 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 The complement of sbase is ubase[1] which is Linux-specific and 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 or run: make sbase-box-install 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/