Commands-collection

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A collection of system commands written in Free Pascal.

They are:

• Programs put in src (sorry but I'm too lazy to update the list manually);
• UNIX-only (for now) programs that are seen in daily computer life
• Proof-of-concept (POC)s

They are NOT:

• Copycats (although some are intended to behave like original counterparts)
• Made to be laughed at
• Suitable for daily-use
• Fully optimized (atm)
• Object-oriented (although some like TRegExpr is used sometimes)
• Battle-tested

Building

Setup

Go install:

• FPC (Free Pascal Compiler) 3.x
• A C compiler - required C Standard version is unclear, but target C23 if you can
• Git, to show the repository's revision in program's -V

Build

Read this.

Run

All programs are set to be placed in build/bin/<target cpu+os>.

The universal usage documentation is here.

Credits

• @ikelaiah for cli-fp library. Part of it is used and modified.
• Everyone who made resources for us to refer

References

• Linux man pages
• Windows API documentations
• GNU Coreutils source code
• Free Pascal's Run time library (RTL) and Wiki and docs
• Procps-ng source code
• Free Pascal Compiler's packages. FPMake source code and examples can be found there.
• TRegExpr

TODO

• Complete existing commands
• Add man pages?
• Fix CI uploading - it's never been done properly
• Add tests
• If needed: add C. For example, there is no stdin or stdout in Pascal (I'm stupid, they are placed in system unit)
• Improve the program's performance
• Handle errors nicely
• Unicode support