sbase/README
FRIGN bafd41e1cf Add printf(1)
This is a particularly interesting program.
I managed to implement everything according to POSIX except how
octal escapes are specified in the standard, which is yet another
format compared to the one demanded for tr(1).
This not only confuses people, it also adds unnecessary cruft
for no real gain.
So in order to be able to use unescape() easily and for consistency,
I used our initial format \o[oo] instead of \0[ooo].

Marked as optional is UTF-8 support for %c in the POSIX specification.
Given how well-developed libutf has become, doing this here was more
or less trivial, putting us yet again ahead of the competition.
2015-02-15 14:46:58 +01:00

120 lines
5.4 KiB
Plaintext

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):
UTILITY POSIX 2008 COMPLIANT MISSING OPTIONS
------- -------------------- ---------------
=* basename yes none
=* cal yes none
=* cat yes none
= chgrp no -H -L -P
=* chmod yes none
= chown no -H -L -P
=* 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 none
=* dirname yes none
= du yes none (-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, -R, -q, -u
=* 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, -n, -p, -v, -w
=* 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 no -a, -n, -t
=* sync non-posix none
=* tail yes none
=* tar non-posix none
=* tee yes none
#* test 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.
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/