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If you look at GNU coreutils, they do not support the mappings $ echo "1234abc" | tr "[:alnum:]" "[:upper:]" $ echo "ABCabc" | tr -c "[:upper:]" "[l*]" to only give a few examples. This commit broadens the scope of tr(1) as far as humanly possible to map between classes and non-classes, making tr a usable tool and actually fulfilling user expectations. Posix really is of no help here as it still kind of assumes the fixed ASCII table instead of complex Unicode code points or even Grapheme clusters.
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 .
0#*|x cols .
0=*|o comm .
0=*|o cp (-i)
0=*|x cron .
0#*|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 .
0#*|o fold .
0=*|o getconf (-v)
=*|o grep .
0=*|o head .
0=*|x hostname .
0=*|x install .
0=* o join .
0=*|o kill .
0=*|o link .
0=*|o ln .
0=*|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 .
0#*|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 .
0#*|o sort .
0=*|o split .
0=*|x sponge .
0#*|o strings .
0=*|x sync .
0=*|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 .
0=*|o uniq .
0=*|o unlink .
0=*|o uudecode .
0=*|o uuencode .
0#*|o wc .
0=*|x which .
0=*|x whoami .
0=*|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/