ubase/README

ubase - suckless linux base utils
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ubase is  a collection of  tools similar  in spirit to  util-linux but
much simpler.

The following programs are currently implemented:

    chvt clear ctrlaltdel dd df dmesg eject fallocate free freeramdisk
    fsfreeze getty halt  hwclock id insmod killall5  login lsmod lsusb
    mknod mkswap mount mountpoint  pagesize passwd pidof pivot_root ps
    readahead respawn rmmod stat  su swapoff swapon switch_root sysctl
    truncate umount unshare uptime watch who

The complement  of ubase  is sbase[1] which  mostly follows  POSIX and
provides all the portable tools.  Together they are intended to form a
base system similar to busybox but much smaller and suckless.

Building
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To  build ubase,  simply  type  make.  You  may  have  to fiddle  with
config.mk and config.h depending on your system.

You  can  also  build  ubase-box,  which  generates  a  single  binary
containing  all  the  required  tools.    You  can  then  symlink  the
individual tools to ubase-box or run them directly as follows:

  ubase-box cmd [args]

Ideally you will  want to statically link ubase.   We highly recommend
using musl-libc[2].

ubase is known to compile with gcc, clang and tcc.

[1] http://git.suckless.org/sbase/
[2] http://www.musl-libc.org/