minutils

minutils is a portable Unix-like toolset that supplies lightweight implementations of popular commands.

Commands

echo

Print the supplied arguments to stdout as a space-seperated string.

Example: minutils-echo hello world

mkdir

Create a directory and all of its parents, silently continuing if any directories already exist. Functions similarly to mkdir -p in other implementations.

Example: minutils-mkdir ~/abc/xyz/

rm

Remove all specified files, failing if any do not already exist.

Example: minutils-rm abc xyz tuv

cp

Note

The minutils implementation of cp only accepts two arguments (extras are ignored). This means that traditional shell globbing (cp xyz/* abc/) does not work properly at the moment.

Copy the file specified in the first argument to the filename specified in the second argument. You cannot copy to a directory without specifying the destination filename.

Example: minutils-cp abc xyz

ls

List all files in the supplied directory (including hidden ones) in alphabetical order. If no arguments are supplied, list the current directory.

Example: minutils-ls ~/

touch

Note

The traditional touch command changes access timestamps on files that already exist; this behavior is currently unimplemented in minutils.

If the file path specified in the first argument doesn't exist, create it; otherwise exit silently.

Example: minutils-touch abc

cat

Concatenate the specified file(s) line-by-line and output the results to stdout; if no arguments were used, parrot back lines from stdin.

Example: minutils-cat dog

minutils

Show the current version of minutils and its included binaries.

Example: minutils