Some CLI utilities written in Go.
- Mainly intended as Unix-like commands for Windows, but cross-platform anyway.
- Covers similar ground to coreutils, but not intended as a replacement. (Won't ever support all commands & options).
- Just because.
- Grab some recent (v0.3.0) Windows binaries zipped up for 32-bit Windows and 64-bit Windows.
- Just unzip somewhere on your %PATH% (environment variable).
- (These binaries were built and uploaded with
goxc, ofcourse)
NOTE: On Unix systems in particular, be careful that your system PATH elements come BEFORE GOPATH within your PATH environment variable
go get github.com/laher/someutils/./...ls,pwdetc
You could also use go get to pick out a subset of those commands.
go get github.com/laher/someutils/cmd/somesome ls,some pwdetc- Optionally, use
aliasordoskeyto makesomebehave more likebusybox.
My initial target is to get my Windows CLI a bit closer to being as productive as my Linux CLI, by creating many small utilities under one umbrella. Then, who knows. I do like the idea of a Go/Linux, as opposed to Gnu/Linux :)
Some commands are not included, because they're either ubiquitous anyway (such as echo,cd,whoami), just too big, or hard to acheive with pure Go.
I'll just keep adding stuff as I need it. Contributions welcome!
So far, limited versions of the following commands are available: You can also use 'some [cmd] [args...]' for any of these.
| Command | Options supported | STDIN support | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| cat | -Ens | Yes | |
| cp | -r | n/a | TODO: check symlink behaviour. Test large file support |
| grep | -nvHi -E -P | Yes | TODO: binary files support. !!No support for BRE - uses -E by default. |
| gunzip | -k | TODO | TODO: -f, prompt when file exists |
| gzip | -k | TODO | TODO: -f, prompt when file exists |
| head | -n | Yes | TODO: -c |
| ls | -lahr -1 | Yes | TODO: -p -t |
| mv | n/a | TODO: check symlink behaviour | |
| pwd | n/a | ||
| rm | -r | n/a | TODO: check symlink behaviour |
| scp | -r -P | ? | INCOMPLETE - see scp-go . |
| tail | -n -F | Yes | TODO: -c, -f (by descriptor rather than by name). Bug: won't currently print last line unless terminated by a CR. |
| touch | n/a | ||
| unzip | -t | TODO(STDOUT) | Password support would not be straightforward (not supported by standard lib) |
| which | -a | n/a | |
| wget | -c -o | n/a | TODO: multi-threading? (not part of real wget). See wget-go |
| zip | TODO | Password support would not be straightforward (not supported by standard lib) |
- tar,gzip,gunzip
- stat,size,file,split,type
- tee,split,join
- chmod/chown (relevant? Yes I think so)
- diff (too big? Maybe a minimal version would be good here)
- more (how easy is it?)
- du/dh (need OS-specifics: syscall would probably cover it for Unix and Windows)
- find/locate (find is a bit of a monster. locate is probably a stretch)
- ln (would it need some non-Go stuff for Windows? Yes - maybe an 'exec' at this stage)
- ps,kill,pgrep,pkill (need to explore mileage of os.FindProcess, syscall.Kill)
- id,w (is it doable cross-platform?)
- sshd (minimal version, for hosting file transfers etc), ssh (maybe just for running remote commands. Terminal handling might be too challenging for now)
- traceroute (see wtn. Requires setuid & therefore chowning + chmodding on Unix - on Windows I think you'd just need to run as administrator)
- ping (see above)
- dig (I think. Raw DNS requests & collect responses. Hmm, investigate go.net packages)
- chroot (chroot possible for unix via syscall - see gobox)
- less
- a text editor
- top
- dd (I guess. Maybe not)
- awk, sed
- xargs, find -exec
- rsync (algorithms might be a bit hard)
- cron (I guess service handling is another chapter aswell)
- bg,fg
- fsck
- I have separated out the 'flag' functionality, and some other relevant behaviour, into a separate package, uggo
- I drew inspiration early on from a couple of similar projects - many thanks to gobox and go-coreutils. In both cases I considered a fork but my focus is just a little too different to make it feasible. Cheers guys