“Seek not to walk the path of the masters; seek what they sought.” – Matsuo Basho The Bonsai core utilities are the result of the careful examination of the current state of POSIX and Unix utilies. The Unix Philosophy, “do one thing and do it well” is its core but these tools do not cling to the names of the past. The era of the original Unix tools has been long and fruitful, but they have their flaws. The new, non-POSIX era of this project started with frustration with the way certain tools work and how other projects that extend POSIX don’t make anything better. This project will not follow in the footsteps of GNU; extensions of POSIX will not be found here. GNU extensions are a gateway to the misuse of the shell. The Bonsai core utilities will intentionally discourage use of the shell for purposes beyond its scope. See docs/ for more on the specific utilities currently implemented. Building The coreutils require a POSIX-compliant environment to compile, including a C compiler and preprocessor (cc(1) and cpp(1) by default) with the -idirafter flag, a Rust compiler (rustc(1) by default), bindgen(1), and a POSIX-compliant make(1) utility. To build and install: $ make $ make PREFIX="/your/preferred/location" install To build with a different compiler than the default: $ make CC=clang $ make RUSTC=gccrs To test the utilities: $ make test To remove all untracked files: $ make clean Read More An Introduction to the Unix Shell Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines Master Foo Discourses on the Unix-Nature Shell Programming! -- Copyright © 2023–2024 Emma Tebibyte Copyright © 2024 DTB This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit .