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“Seek not to walk the path of the masters; seek what they sought.”
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– Matsuo Basho
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The Bonsai core utilities are a replacement for standard POSIX utilities which
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aim to fill its niche while expanding on their capabilities. These new tools are
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the result of the careful examination of the current state of POSIX and Unix
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utilies. The Unix Philosophy of “do one thing and do it well” are their core but
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they avoid clinging to the past.
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The era of the original Unix tools has been long and fruitful, but they have
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their flaws. The new, non-POSIX era of this project started with frustration
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with the way certain tools work and how other projects that extend POSIX don’t
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make anything better.
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This project will not follow in the footsteps of GNU; extensions of POSIX will
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not be found here. GNU extensions are a gateway to the misuse of the shell. The
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Bonsai core utilities will intentionally discourage use of the shell for
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purposes beyond its scope.
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See docs/ for more on the specific utilities currently implemented.
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Building
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The coreutils require a POSIX-compliant environment to compile, including a C
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compiler and preprocessor (cc(1) and cpp(1) by default), an edition 2023 Rust
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compiler (rustc(1) by default), bindgen(1), and a POSIX-compliant make(1)
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utility.
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To build and install:
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$ make
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$ make PREFIX="/your/preferred/location" install
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To build with a different compiler than the default:
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$ make CC=clang
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$ make RUSTC=gccrs
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To test the utilities:
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$ make test
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To remove all build and distributable files:
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$ make clean
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Read More
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An Introduction to the Unix Shell
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<https://porkmail.org/era/unix/shell>
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Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines
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<http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.html>
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Master Foo Discourses on the Unix-Nature
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<http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/unix-nature.html>
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Shell Programming!
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<https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/why-shell.html>
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--
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Copyright © 2023–2024 Emma Tebibyte <emma@tebibyte.media>
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Copyright © 2024 DTB <trinity@trinity.moe>
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This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit
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<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/>.
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