[BusyBox] coreutils

[Erik Andersen]

On Tue Nov 05, 2002 at 10:24:20PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Ive just gone through the applets debian provides via our shellutils,
> textutils and fileutils directories, comparing to the equivalents as
> provided by coreutils.
> 
> extra == applets busybox provides that arent in upstream, parethesis
> indicate upsteam package to which they belong.
> not provided == upstream command doesnt have a busybox applet

Cool, thanks Glenn.  This is helpful.

> shellutils
> extra: cal (bsdmainutils), usleep, watch(procps)
> not provided: factor, groups, nice, nohup, pathchk, pinky, printenv, seq,
> users
> 
> textutils
> extra: awk, cmp (diff), dos2unix/unix2dos (sysutils), length,
> uuencode/uudecode (sharutils)
> not provided: cksum, comm, csplit, expand, fmt, fold, nl, paste, pr, ptx,
> split, sum, tac, tsort, unexpand

awk should be moved to live under editors I think.

> fileutils:
> extra: none
> need: vdir
> 
> All up coreutils provides 86 commands, of those busybox provides 60 of
> them.

I guess we should get busy coding then. :)

 -Erik

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