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Implement pax utility

Implement pax: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html

Localization (i18n): notes and planning

Introduction

Soliciting discussion over the localization (i18n) strategy for this project.

Goals

Goal 1: Localize everything

The goal is complete localization of all messages visible to the user, within the bounds of POSIX compliance:

All util messages, collation sequences, charsets and other util i18n details
All --help messages and related output (clap crate)
All OS error messages (io::Result)
It is believed that some minimum set of strings are required to be English/POSIX permanently. Minimize this POSIX-only set as much as possible.

Goal 2: Encourage UTF-8

To be forward-looking, this project looks for opportunities to

Drop support for non-UTF 8 strings
Default to UTF-8 charsets and strings

This project should aggressively interpret the POSIX standards in terms of UTF-8 support, and look for opportunities to create default-UTF-8 operating modes, with a fallback mode that is "POSIX-ly correct."

Implementation strategies

Current strategy

The current strategies are,

use the gettext crate, and mark strings with gettext(). This provides a starting point for per-util coding, and at least gets us started on the road to i18n.
each util sets the charset thusly,

    bind_textdomain_codeset(PROJECT_NAME, "UTF-8")?;

Improvements to our i18n

At present, OS error messages and --help are not translated at all, and need a project-wide strategy.

Also, one idea that is aligned with the gencat util is to generate catgets message catalogs and abandon gettext. This works because catgets exists on all modern platforms.

See issue #65 for util-related tasks.

Feedback and thoughts are requested. We want to give users the best i18n support possible.

Implement UUCP utilities

Implement UUCP related utilities:

uucp. Spec: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/uucp.html
uustat. Spec: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/uustat.html
uux. Spec: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/uux.html

Resources:

Taylor UUCP package: https://github.com/quinot/taylor-uucp

SCCS utilities

Implement SCCS utilities:

Development utilities

Implement development utilities:

Cron and Batch utilities

Implement cron and batch-related utilities:

System and process category

Implement system and process utils:

Create integration tests for "rmdir" utility

The rmdir utility found in tree/src/rmdir.rs lacks integration tests.

Create a new set of integration tests in tree/tests/rmdir-tests.rs. Test both with and without -p. Ensure negative tests exist, testing failure conditions, as well as positive tests. Test with zero, one and multiple pathnames on the command line. Verify that the utility CLI exit code is POSIX compliant and correct in all cases.