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The assumption of NUL-terminated strings is actually quite a good one in most cases. You don't have to worry about paths, because they may not contain NUL. Same applies to arguments passed to you. Unless you have to unescape, there is no way for you to receive a NUL. There are two important exceptions though, and it's important that we address them, or else we get unexpected behaviour: 1) All tools using unescape() have to be strict about delimlen. Else they end up for instance unescaping '\\0abc' to '\0abc', which in C's string-vision is an empty string. 2) All tools doing line wrenching and putting them out again as lines again. puts() will cut each line containing NULs off at the first occurence.
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:
'#' -> UTF-8 support, '=' -> Implicit UTF-8 support, '*' -> Finished,
'|' -> Audited, 'o' -> POSIX 2013 compliant, 'x' -> Non-POSIX,
'0' -> NUL handling, '()' -> Petty flag
UTILITY MISSING
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0=*|o basename .
0=*|o cal .
0=*|o cat .
0=*|o chgrp .
0=*|o chmod .
0=*|o chown .
0=*|x chroot .
0=*|o cksum .
0=*|o cmp .
#*|x cols .
=*|o comm .
0=*|o cp (-i)
0=*|x cron .
#*|o cut .
0=*|o date .
0=*|o dirname .
0=*|o du .
0=*|o echo .
o ed .
0=*|o env .
0#*|o expand .
0#*|o expr .
0=*|o false .
0= find .
0=* x flock .
#*|o fold .
0=*|o getconf (-v)
=*|o grep .
=*|o head .
0=*|x hostname .
0=*|x install .
=* o join .
0=*|o kill .
0=*|o link .
0=*|o ln .
=*|o logger .
0=*|o logname .
0#* o ls (-C, -k, -m, -p, -s, -x)
0=*|x md5sum .
0=*|o mkdir .
0=*|o mkfifo .
0=*|x mktemp .
0=*|o mv (-i)
0=*|o nice .
#*|o nl .
0=*|o nohup .
0=*|o od .
0#* o pathchk .
#*|o paste .
0=*|x printenv .
0#*|o printf .
0=*|o pwd .
0=*|x readlink .
0=*|o renice .
0=*|o rm (-i)
0=*|o rmdir .
# sed .
0=*|x seq .
0=*|x setsid .
0=*|x sha1sum .
0=* x sha224sum .
0=*|x sha256sum .
0=* x sha238sum .
0=*|x sha512sum .
0=* x sha512-224sum .
0=* x sha512-256sum .
0=*|o sleep .
#*|o sort .
0=*|o split .
0=*|x sponge .
0#*|o strings .
0=*|x sync .
=*|o tail .
0=*|x tar .
0=*|o tee .
0=*|o test .
0=*|x tftp .
0=*|o time .
0=*|o touch .
0#*|o tr .
0=*|o true .
0=* o tsort .
0=*|o tty .
0=*|o uname .
0#*|o unexpand .
=*|o uniq .
0=*|o unlink .
0=*|o uudecode .
0=*|o uuencode .
0#*|o wc .
0=*|x which .
0=*|x whoami .
=*|o xargs (-p)
0=*|x yes .
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/