sbase - suckless unix tools

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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,

'()' -> Petty flag



     UTILITY     MISSING

     -------     -------

=*|o basename    .

=*|o cal         .

=*|o cat         .

=*|o chgrp       .

=*|o chmod       .

=*|o chown       .

=*|x chroot      .

=*|o cksum       .

=*|o cmp         .

#*|x cols        .

=*|o comm        .

=*|o cp          (-i)

=*|x cron        .

#*|o cut         .

=*|o date        .

=*|o dirname     .

=*|o du          .

=*|o echo        .

=*|o env         .

#*|o expand      .

#*|o expr        .

=*|o false       .

=    find        .

=* x flock       .

#*|o fold        .

=* o getconf     (-v)

=* o grep        .

=*|o head        .

=*|x hostname    .

=* o join        .

=*|o kill        .

=*|o link        .

=*|o ln          .

=*|o logger      .

=*|o logname     .

#* o ls          (-C, -k, -m, -p, -s, -x)

=*|x md5sum      .

=*|o mkdir       .

=*|o mkfifo      .

=*|x mktemp      .

=*|o mv          (-i)

=*|o nice        .

#*|o nl          .

=*|o nohup       .

     od          -t

#*|o paste       .

=*|x printenv    .

#*|o printf      .

=*|o pwd         .

=*|x readlink    .

=*|o renice      .

=*|o rm          (-i)

=*|o rmdir       .

#    sed         .

=*|x seq         .

=*|x setsid      .

=*|x sha1sum     .

=*|x sha256sum   .

=*|x sha512sum   .

=*|o sleep       .

#*|o sort        (-d, -f, -i)

=*|o split       .

=*|x sponge      .

#*|o strings     .

=*|x sync        .

=*|o tail        .

=*|x tar         .

=*|o tee         .

=*|o test        .

=* x tftp        .

=*|o time        .

=*|o touch       .

#*|o tr          .

=*|o true        .

=*|o tty         .

=*|o uname       .

#*|o unexpand    .

=*|o uniq        .

=*|o unlink      .

=*|o uudecode    .

=*|o uuencode    .

#*|o wc          .

=*|x which       .

=*|o xargs       (-p)

=*|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/