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January 2, 2008 - And toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2 is out. New applets include patch, touch, and sha1sum.

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December 12, 2007 - Updated the list of implemented applications, -put up a todo list and infrastructure -documentation. Expect another release towards the end of the month.

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June 18, 2007 - Put out -toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2 since it's -been too long since I did something like that. This one implements -catv, count, df, echo, false, oneit, pwd, sleep, sync, toysh, true, which, -and yes (which is what "make defconfig" enables). There are several other -commands not enabled by defconfig, because they don't really work yet.

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Most of the general infrastructure's there now, although lots of tweaking -and optimizing is still needed. The test suite is skeletal and not entirely -checked in yet, but I'm working on that.

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I don't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd like, but I'm making -a little progress.

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January 31, 2007 - -Screwing up the web page a bit, adding an index bar along the side -which doesn't properly connect up to anything yet. (Busy implementing -mke2fs and gene2fs.)

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Warning: lots of this page is about what I plan to do, not what I've -already done. See my -development blog, or browse the mercurial -archive.

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What is ToyBox?

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The goal of the Toybox project is to create simple implementations of all -the important Linux command line utilities. These implementations should -be small (the entire project should total less than a megabyte, uncompressed), -fast, simple, and correctly implemented (which is related to standards -compliance, but isn't quite the same thing). Click for -more about the design goals

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Toybox has configurable levels of functionality, and should scale from tiny -embedded systems up to full general purpose desktop and development -environments. The author plans to run it on his laptop, and the -Firmware Linux project is trying to get a complete -Linux system to rebuild itself from source code using toybox.

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Toybox is Licensed under GPL version 2.

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Toybox can be built as a single "swiss army knife" executable (ala BusyBox -or Red Hat's Nash), or each command can be built as a traditional independent -executable.

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Which commands are planned?

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Relevant Standards

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Most commands are implemented according to -The -Single Unix Specification version 3. This does not mean that Toybox is -implementing every SUSv3 utility: some such as SCCS and ed are obsolete, while -others such as c99 are outside the scope of the project. Toybox also isn't -implementing full internationalization support: it should be 8-bit clean and -handle UTF-8, but otherwise we leave this to X11 and higher layers. And -some things (like $CDPATH support in "cd") await a good explanation of why -to bother with them.

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The other major sources of commands are the Linux man pages, and testing -the behavior of existing commands (although not generally looking at their -source code).

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What commands are implemented?

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The following commands are currently implemented: basename, catv, chroot, -count, df, dirname, dmesg, echo, false, hello, mkfifo, oneit, pwd, sha1sum, -sleep, sync, true, tty, which, yes.

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The following commands are partly implemented, in a somewhat usable but not -necessarily complete state: bzcat/bunzip2, help, mke2fs, netcat/nc, sh/toysh, -mdev, touch, readlink.

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The following are partially implemented commands that don't actually do -anything yet: mke2fs, md5sum.

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For more information, see the todo list.

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Command Shell

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The Toybox Shell (toysh) aims to be a reasonable bash replacement. It -implements the "sh" and "toysh" commands, plus the built-in commands "cd" and -"exit". This is the largest single sub-project in toybox.

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The following additional commands may be built into the shell (but not as -separate executables): cd, exit, if, while, for, function, fg, bg, jobs, source, -alias, -export, set, unset, read, trap, and exec. (Note: not done yet.)

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Download

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This project is maintained as a mercurial archive. To get a copy of the -current development version, either use mercurial (hg clone -http://landley.net/toybox) or click on one of the zip/gz/bz2 links -at the top of the mercurial archive browser page to get -an archive of the appropriate version. Click -tags to the tagged release versions ("tip" -is the current development version).

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My development log is currently the best way to -track what's going on with this project. There's also a -mailing list for toybox development.

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