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“Seek not to walk the path of the masters; seek what they sought.”
– Matsuo Basho
For the Bonsai coreutils, a better Unix toolset, please visit
<https://git.tebibyte.media/bonsai/coreutils>.
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.
wwwww /
wWWWWWw /_ _____ _ * "It's not a very good tree, but
w|||w / \/ \ / | /\ / /|/ occasionally it bears fruit!"
_,|||._ _/\__/|__// /_/_|_/_//|__
bonsix : "BOHN zix" : "Bonsai" but "POSIX"
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.
The excellent Bonsai core utilities are the result of the careful examination
of the current state of POSIX and Unix utilities, ironing out wrinkles in the
implementations that ended up being worn by the POSIX standard. Bonsai's
guiding quote is this one from Matsuo Basho:
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.
"Seek not to walk the path of the masters; seek what they sought."
See docs/ for more on the specific utilities currently implemented.
Unlike Bonsai, Bonsix intends to walk the path of the masters, implementing a
POSIX userland under an AGPLv3 license and taking inspiration from the
practices used by Bonsai.
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
Bonsix requires an existing POSIX-compliant environment to compile, including a
C compiler and preprocessor (cc(1) and cpp(1) by default) and a POSIX-compliant
make(1) utility.
To build and install:
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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
<https://porkmail.org/era/unix/shell>
Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.html>
Master Foo Discourses on the Unix-Nature
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/unix-nature.html>
Shell Programming!
<https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/why-shell.html>
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