ubase - suckless linux base utils

ubase is a collection of tools similar in spirit to util-linux but much simpler.

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

To build ubase, simply type make. You may have to fiddle with config.mk and config.h 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 or run: make ubase-box-install.

To run the tools for ubase-box directly use: ubase-box cmd [args]

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/