Gearbox

A box full of utilities, a unworthy replacement for coreutils / busybox / toybox.

List of content

• How to setup
  • Systems
    • Ubuntu
    • Arch
  • How to build
• Modules
• License

How to setup

To setup, it's quite simple. You install the rust toolchain from either your package manager or directly from the rustup website linked here

• Rust
• glibc

Ubuntu

sudo apt install curl build-essential -y
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Arch

sudo pacman -Sy base-devel curl
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

How to build

# To build, simpy run
~$ cargo build

# To run, simply do
~$ cargo run

# You can use each module by using
~$ cargo run -- [MODULE_NAME] <MODULE_ARGS>

Modules

Those are the checklist for the modules / commands that are supported. Note that not everything is implemented just yet, we're working on it!

• chcon
• chgrp
• chown
• chmod
• cp
• dd
• df
• dir
• dircolors
• install
• ln
• ls
• mkdir
• mkfifo
• mknod
• mktemp
• mv
• realpath
• rm
• rmdir
• shred
• sync
• touch
• truncate
• vdir
• b2sum
• base32
• base64
• cat
• cksum
• comm
• csplit
• cut
• expand
• fmt
• fold
• head
• join
• md5sum
• nl
• numfmt
• od
• paste
• ptx
• pr
• sha1sum
• sha224sum
• sha256sum
• sha384sum
• sha512sum
• shuf
• sort
• split
• sum
• tac
• tail
• tr
• tsort
• unexpand
• uniq
• wc
• arch
• basename
• chroot
• date
• dirname
• du
• echo
• env
• expr
• factor
• false
• groups
• hostid
• id
• link
• logname
• nice
• nohup
• nproc
• pathchk
• pinky
• printenv
• printf
• pwd
• readlink
• runcon
• seq
• sleep
• stat
• stdbuf
• stty
• tee
• test
• timeout
• true
• tty
• uname
• unlink
• uptime
• users
• who
• whoami
• yes
• [

License

Gearbox's code is licensed under the MIT licence. Please see the licence file for more information. tl;dr you can do whatever you want as long as you include the original copyright and license notice in any copy of the software/source.