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“Seek not to walk the path of the masters; seek what they sought.”
– Matsuo Basho
The Bonsai harakit is an alternative to the standard POSIX utility set that
aims to be simpler, easier, and more powerful than its counterpart. These tools
are the result of careful examination of the current state of POSIX and common
Unix utilities. They represent a vision of accomplishing everyday use cases
with tools that follow the Unix philosophy of “do one thing and do it well”,
without clinging to the past.
Bonsai’s Harakit is an alternative to the standard POSIX utilities that aims to
be simpler, easier, and more powerful. These tools are the result of careful
examination of the current state common Unix utilities, POSIX-compliant and
otherwise, following frustrations with design decisions and implementation
details. They represent a vision of accomplishing everyday use cases with tools
that follow the Unix philosophy of “do one thing and do it well” without
clinging to the past.
The era of the original Unix tools has been long and fruitful, but they have
their flaws. This project originated from frustrations with the way certain
tools work and how other projects that extend POSIX don’t make anything better.
The intent of harakit is not to conform to or extend POSIX, like the GNU or BSD
utilities, but to invent new utilities to perform the same tasks in more
The intent of Harakit is not to conform to or extend POSIX, like the GNU or BSD
utilities do, but to invent new utilities to perform the same tasks in more
intuitive ways. GNU and BSD extensions are convenient but often unhealthy,
forgetting the purposes of the tools they extend, or building into existing
utilities features that would be more useful as their own tools to be used
anywhere. Whereas other utility sets aim to provide a number of fully-featured
programs to be used individually, harakit tools are meant to be easily
anywhere. Other utility sets aim to provide a number of fully-featured
programs to be used individually, Harakit utilities are meant to be easily
composable and work together in pipelines.
See docs/ for more on the specific utilities currently implemented.
Building
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Harakit utilities require a POSIX-compliant environment to compile, including a
C compiler and preprocessor (cc(1) and cpp(1) by default), an edition 2023 Rust
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$ make clean
Contributing
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See the CONTRIBUTING file for contribution guidelines.
Community
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xmpp://bonsai@covenant.murderu.us
irc://feeling.murderu.us/#bonsai
Read More
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An Introduction to the Unix Shell
<https://porkmail.org/era/unix/shell>