busybox-w32
microperl-standalone | busybox-w32 | |
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1 | 16 | |
12 | 642 | |
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10.0 | 9.2 | |
about 4 years ago | 10 days ago | |
C | C | |
- | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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microperl-standalone
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The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition
I like how Awk is just a single executable. A single-executable Perl that includes only the core library would be great. There is Microperl [0, 1], but no idea how well it compiles with more up-to-date Perl versions.
0: https://github.com/bentxt/microperl-standalone
1: Original article from 2000 by the author Simon Cozens: https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_3/tpj0503-0003.html
busybox-w32
- The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition
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POSIX sh is a better interpreter than python
Even in environments such as win32, we have https://frippery.org/busybox/ that is just fucking awesome. Staying the size below an 1mb while being extremely fast. Unlike the shitty python package which has 40mb archive size and leave breadcrumbs for me to cleanup all over my filesystem.
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The amount of times I have accidentally done this...
Win32 port is here: https://frippery.org/busybox/
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God's developer console
Look into busybox for windows https://frippery.org/busybox/. Pretty bad ass even with it’s downsides of missing applets and such
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Does vim suck on windows?
Vim by itself means no supporting unix environment. It's useful to call out to powerful external tools not present by default on Windows. I fill that gap with busybox-w32. It's not a big deal once solved.
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looking for a graphics library
Sure, it's not necessary, but a few simple, nice tools (<600kiB for an entire suite of extended unix utilities) makes thing a whole lot simpler on a platform devoid of nice tools.
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Compress lots of files into lots of individual files?
To operate on many files you'll need better tools than what Windows gives you. One option is busybox-w32 (important caveat: doesn't support unicode paths), which will get you some basic command line tools. For example, to gzip compress every file under the current directory, including subdirectories (leaving the originals behind with -k):
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Windows verison of cal
busybox-w32 includes a cal applet. If that's all you care about, you can just rename busybox.exe to cal.exe.
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What's in your tool belt?
busybox-w32: standard unix utilities for Windows. It's a BusyBox port.
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Makefile example project for Windows with source, include, libs and build folders. Also with a detailed explanation!
IHMO, even better is to just use POSIX sh in your Makefile and simply make it a build requirement. It's easy to obtain a reasonable sh even on Windows (Cygwin, MSYS2, busybox-w32), and to further support exactly this I include sh alongside make in my development kit distribution. This uniformity lets me hit all operating systems with the same Makefile. I use EXE from the environment to determine the binary file extension, if any.
What are some alternatives?
frawk - an efficient awk-like language
homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager
Awk-Batteries - Public AWK Directory
notty - A new kind of terminal
textimg - Command to convert from color text (ANSI or 256) to image.
oursh - Your comrade through the perilous world of UNIX.
sparklines - Text-based sparklines for the command line mimicking those of Edward Tufte.
csvinfo - A small util to show max column lengths for a passed CSV file.
awk-vm - A virtual machine and assembler written in AWK.
csvquote - Enables common unix utlities like cut, awk, wc, head to work correctly with csv data containing delimiters and newlines
nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
awk - Random AWK code