baseutils

baseutils is a collection of Unix userland utilities from OpenBSD.

It is designed to be configuration-less; just run make to build everything and sudo make install to install everything.

You can customize the installation directory by setting the PREFIX environment variable during sudo make install, for example: sudo make PREFIX=/usr install.

You can customize the manual page installation directory by setting the MANDIR environment variable during sudo make install, for example: sudo make MANDIR=/usr/share/man install.

Some installation recommendations:

• sudo make PREFIX=/ MANDIR=/usr/share/man install for global installation
• sudo make PREFIX=/usr MANDIR=/usr/share/man install for another type of global installation
• sudo make PREFIX=/usr/local MANDIR=/usr/local/share/man for package installation
• sudo make PREFIX=/opt MANDIR=/opt/share/man for pkgsrc installation
• sudo make PREFIX=/usr/ucb MANDIR=/usr/ucb/share/man for Sun-style *BSD utility installation

Don't forget to add $PREFIX/bin to your $PATH in order to use these utilities!

Building

You will need BSD make or GNU make, or another make that understands the -C flag the same way those two do.

You will need clang or gcc.

baseutils will use its own tools (yacc, lex, m4, mv, etc.) during build, thus no external Unix utilities are necessary besides make and a compiler toolchain.

baseutils assumes C99 and a POSIX interface.

Testing

baseutils is built on Void Linux for glibc testing and Alpine Linux for musl-libc compatibility.

Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD testing appreciated.

Testing on other operating systems appreciated as well.

Licensing

These utilities carry BSD-style licenses.

libz carries a zlib license.

Utilities

• [(1)
• apply(1)
• arch(1)
• awk(1)
• banner(1)
• basename(1)
• bc(1) (from https://github.com/gavinhoward/bc)
• biff(1)
• cat(1)
• ci(1)
• cmp(1)
• co(1)
• col(1)
• colrm(1)
• column(1)
• comm(1)
• compress(1)
• cp(1)
• cpio(1)
• csplit(1)
• ctags(1)
• cut(1)
• date(1)
• dc(1) (from https://github.com/gavinhoward/bc)
• dd(1)
• deroff(1)
• diff(1)
• dirname(1)
• echo(1)
• ed(1)
• egrep(1)
• env(1)
• expand(1)
• expr(1)
• false(1)
• fgrep(1)
• flex(1)
• flex++(1)
• fmt(1)
• fold(1)
• grep(1)
• gunzip(1)
• gzcat(1)
• gzexe(1)
• gzip(1)
• ident(1)
• indent(1)
• join(1)
• jot(1)
• lex(1)
• ln(1)
• ls(1)
• m4(1)
• machine(1)
• merge(1)
• mkdir(1)
• mv(1)
• nl(1)
• opencvs(1)
• paste(1)
• patch(1)
• pax(1)
• printf(1)
• pwd(1)
• rcs(1)
• rcsclean(1)
• rcsdiff(1)
• rcsmerge(1)
• rlog(1)
• rm(1)
• rmdir(1)
• sed(1)
• sleep(1)
• sync(8)
• tar(1)
• tee(1)
• test(1)
• true(1)
• uname(1)
• uncompress(1)
• unifdef(1)
• uniq(1)
• wc(1)
• who(1)
• whois(1)
• xargs(1)
• yacc(1)
• yes(1)
• yyfix(1)
• zcat(1)
• zcmp(1)
• zdiff(1)
• zegrep(1)
• zfgrep(1)
• zforce(1)
• zgrep(1)
• zless(1)
• zmore(1)
• znew(1)