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 ------- ------- 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 . =*|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 . 0#*|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/