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POSIX 2024 (Utilities) (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 27.02.2025, 01:01

Although it's pretty irrelevant for us (and even DJGPP), I'm still vaguely curious about POSIX, esp. their utilities. (Even OpenWatcom had a mild fascination with POSIX utils.)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_POSIX_commands

No huge changes, AFAICT, removed some q* utils and fort77. Added some others (gettext??).

Things I would consider uniquely useful for us (for flexibility):

> awk cp diff find grep mv patch rm sed sort sleep uname uniq vi wc

Things that could sometimes be useful (but less so):

> bc cat cut dd df du file head m4 make sh tail touch tr

Things that are redundant / obsolete / have better alternatives:

> (SCCS) cksum (un)compress ed (un)expand man more nl od tsort

Of course, there are alternative utilities that could be standardized instead. But this list does give a good overview of useful functionality, roughly speaking.

Complete thread:

• POSIX 2024 (Utilities) - Rugxulo, 27.02.2025, 01:01 (Developers)
  • POSIX 2024 (Utilities) - tkchia, 30.03.2025, 16:54
  • POSIX 2024 (Utilities) - Oso2k, 30.03.2025, 19:45
    • POSIX 2024 (Utilities) - tkchia, 31.03.2025, 07:40