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            .

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#* x rev             .

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/