https://github.com/snektron/snake-tools

Snakes don't like working with archaic unix tools
https://github.com/snektron/snake-tools

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Snakes don't like working with archaic unix tools

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/snektron/snake-tools
• Owner: Snektron
• Created: 2023-08-23T18:45:24.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-08-23T18:50:40.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-08-23T20:27:09.287Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Zig
• Size: 2.93 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Snake-tools

Some snakes get sad when they have to use `cut` or `killall` and it doesn't do what they want. This repository is for such snakes.

## Goal

Replacement for some coreutils or busyboxutils that are not very useful in their original form. Shortlist:

- [x] `cut`

    - Cut splits by tab on default, and we cannot make it split on multiple characters. This is pretty useless since most tools output space-delimited data. Even in those cases, it doesn't properly work. The `cut` replacement (`fields`) splits on whitespace by default.

- [ ] `killall` / `kill`

    - killall is just useless. I type `killall firefox` and nothing happens. The replacement should match on argv[0] instead. The idea is to write a `kill` alternative (`unalive`) that takes a list of PIDs from stdin.