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ubase - suckless linux base utils
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ubase is a collection of tools similar in spirit to util-linux but
much simpler.
The following programs are currently implemented:
chvt clear ctrlaltdel dd df dmesg eject fallocate free getty halt
hwclock id insmod killall5 login lsmod lsusb mknod mkswap mount
mountpoint pagesize pidof pivot_root ps respawn rmmod stat su
swapoff swapon switch_root sysctl truncate umount unshare uptime
watch who
The complement of ubase is sbase[1] which mostly follows POSIX and
provides all the portable tools. Together they are intended to form a
base system similar to busybox but much smaller and suckless.
Building
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To build ubase, simply type make. You may have to fiddle with
config.mk depending on your system.
You can also build ubase-box, which generates a single binary
containing all the required tools. You can then symlink the
individual tools to ubase-box.
Ideally you will want to statically link ubase. We highly recommend
using musl-libc[2].
ubase is known to compile with gcc, clang and tcc.
[1] http://git.suckless.org/sbase/
[2] http://www.musl-libc.org/