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“Seek not to walk the path of the masters; seek what they sought.” For the Bonsai coreutils, a better Unix toolset, please visit
– Matsuo Basho <https://git.tebibyte.media/bonsai/coreutils>.
The Bonsai core utilities are the result of the careful examination of the wwwww /
current state of POSIX and Unix utilies. The Unix Philosophy, “do one thing and wWWWWWw /_ _____ _ * "It's not a very good tree, but
do it well” is its core but these tools do not cling to the names of the past. 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 The excellent Bonsai core utilities are the result of the careful examination
their flaws. The new, non-POSIX era of this project started with frustration of the current state of POSIX and Unix utilities, ironing out wrinkles in the
with the way certain tools work and how other projects that extend POSIX don’t implementations that ended up being worn by the POSIX standard. Bonsai's
make anything better. guiding quote is this one from Matsuo Basho:
This project will not follow in the footsteps of GNU; extensions of POSIX will "Seek not to walk the path of the masters; seek what they sought."
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. 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 Building
The coreutils require a POSIX-compliant environment to compile, including a C Bonsix requires an existing POSIX-compliant environment to compile, including a
compiler and preprocessor (cc(1) and cpp(1) by default) with the -idirafter C compiler and preprocessor (cc(1) and cpp(1) by default) and a POSIX-compliant
flag, a Rust compiler (rustc(1) by default), bindgen(1), and a POSIX-compliant
make(1) utility. make(1) utility.
To build and install: To build and install:
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To build with a different compiler than the default: To build with a different compiler than the default:
$ make CC=clang $ 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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