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A cross-platform port of GNU's coreutils to Go

Go coreutils

This is a port of GNU's coreutils (http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/) that aims to be a drop-in, cross-platform replacement.

It's currently under development.

Because it imports from github.com/EricLagergren/go-gnulib, and I'm constantly refactoring, parts could break from day-to-day.

I'd recommend running go get -u ... before you file a bug report!

Pull requests are more than welcome.

Also, see https://www.github.com/EricLagergren/go-gnulib for a similar project that this project depends on.

Completed:

• 100% Completion
• 15/100
• Partial Completion
• 2/100

Utility	Completeness	Cross Platform	Need Refactor
cat	100%	Yes (Unix/Windows)	No
chown	0% (* see note #1)	No	Yes (-R)
env	100%	Yes (Unix/Windows)	No
false	100%	Yes (Unix/Windows)	No
logname	100%	No	No
pwd	100%	Yes (Unknown)	No
sync	100%	Yes (Unix/Windows)	No
true	100%	Yes (Unix/Windows)	No
tsort	100%	Yes (Unix/Windows)	No
tty	100%	Yes (Unix/Windows)	No
uname	100%	No	No
uptime	90%	Yes (Unix/Windows, no FreeBSD)	No
users	100%	No	No
wc	100%	Yes (Unix/Windows)	No
whoami	100%	Yes (Unix/Windows	No
xxd	100%	Yes (Unix/Windows)	No
yes	100%	Yes (Unix/Windows)	No

• chown note: Currently refactoring from the ground-up.

Side notes:

• Unix should include OS X unless otherwise specified.
• Gofmt means it needs its styling changes (e.g. variable names, formatting, etc.)
• Idiomatic means it needs to be changed to more idiomatic Go
• Windows coverage will increase when I get a Windows laptop

Information:

Performance:

Obviously there's some things Go can do better (parallelism and concurrency), but for the most part these tools should have nearly the same speed, with Go being slightly slower.

eric@archbox $ time ./wc_go -lwmc one_gigabyte_file.txt 
  32386258  146084896 1182425560 1183778772 one_gigabyte_file.txt

real  0m25.206s
user  0m24.900s
sys   0m0.313s
eric@archbox $ time wc_c -lwmc one_gigabyte_file.txt 
  32386258  146084896 1182425560 1183778772 one_gigabyte_file.txt

real  0m22.841s
user  0m22.570s
sys   0m0.257s

Behavior:

These utilities should be nearly identical to GNU's coreutils.

Since parsing the output of shell commands isn't uncommon (even if it is bad behavior), most of the commands should have output that is nearly identical to the original GNU commands.

Do note that sometimes the results could differ a little for select commands.

For example, GNU's wc utility relies on the current locale to determine whether it should parse multi-byte characters or not.

The Go version, on the other hand, uses the unicode/utf8 package which natively detects multi-byte sequences. The trade-off is this: the Go version is technically more correct, while the C version is faster.

Our implementation of xxd is actually much faster than the native xxd implementation found on most *nix machines -- try it out!

REQUIRES:

(Depends on platform and command...)

• go get github.com/EricLagergren/ostypes
• go get golang.org/x/sys/unix
• go get github.com/EricLagergren/go-gnulib/ttyname
• go get github.com/EricLagergren/go-gnulib/sysinfo
• go get github.com/EricLagergren/go-gnulib/posix
• go get github.com/EricLagergren/go-gnulib/general
• go get github.com/EricLagergren/go-gnulib/login

LICENSE:

   Copyright (C) 2014-2016 Eric Lagergren

   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

License subnotes:

It (as a whole) is licensed under the GPLv3 because it's mostly a transliteration of GNU's coreutils, which are licensed under the GPLv3.

However, certain parts have their own licenses (e.g., xxd is public domain).