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: UTILITY POSIX 2008 COMPLIANT MISSING OPTIONS ------- -------------------- --------------- basename yes none cal pending pending cat yes none chgrp no -h, -H, -L, -P chmod yes none chown no -h, -H, -L, -P chroot non-posix none cksum yes none cmp yes none cols non-posix none comm yes none cp no -H, -i, -L cron non-posix none cut yes none date yes none dirname yes none du no -H, -L, -x echo yes none env yes none expand yes none expr yes none false 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, -H, -L, -R, -c, -q, -u md5sum non-posix none mkdir yes none mkfifo yes none mktemp non-posix none mv no -i nice yes none nl no -d, -f, -h, -l, -n, -p, -v, -w nohup yes none paste yes none printenv non-posix none printf stolen stolen pwd yes none readlink non-posix none renice yes none rm no -i rmdir no -p sleep yes none setsid non-posix none sort no -m, -o, -d, -f, -i split yes none sponge non-posix none strings no -a, -n, -t sync non-posix none tail no -c, -f tar non-posix none tee no -i test yes none touch no -a, -m, -r tr yes none true yes none tty yes none uudecode no -o uuencode no -m uname yes none unexpand yes none uniq no -f, -s unlink yes none seq non-posix none sha1sum non-posix none sha256sum non-posix none sha512sum non-posix none wc yes none xargs no -I, -L, -p, -s, -t, -x yes yes 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 -------- You need GNU make to build sbase on OpenBSD. 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/