POSIX_TOOLS

This repo delivery useful and portable tools for everyone. New utilities are keep coming!

Installation

All tools currently available can be used out-of-box. For convenience, you may run the install.sh script to install these utilities to /usr/local/bin. The manpages will also be installed to /usr/local/share/man.

• You could supply -D or --dest and the destination path as prefix to the install script.

• If you only want to install manpage, you can do the following:

cd ./man
make install
# alternatively, if you don't have enough privilege:
# sudo make install

User Guide

Check for each manpage or supply -h option for the usage of each utilities presented in this repo.

Miscellaneous

Most of the utilities in this repo has also C / Python alternatives, which is not licenced under AGPLv3. If you want to modify / redistribute / use the utilities in proprietary code, you may want to contact us.

Bug Report

You may open an issue at this repo's GitHub mirror.

Acknowledgement

• This project is not a commercial product.
• The Makefile for manpage is adapted from the Makefile included in man-pages-posix-2017, an original copyright notice is attached to the man/Makefile.
• 'POSIX' is also a trademark of the IEEE. This project is not affiliated nor supported by IEEE.

Copyright

(C) 2023 Yixi Meta

Code or documentation contributed by others has copyright notice attached in the file or reported in Acknowledgement