moore@betelgeuse.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) (09/11/90)
Is there a collection of useful UNIX utilities written in /bin/sh? Several times recently I have been stuck with trying to repair a broken system, using only the utilities available on a boot floppy or the root file system. Under SunOS, for example, /bin is a symlink to usr/bin, and /sbin only contains hostname, ifconfig, init, intr, mount, and sh. It's pretty difficult to diagnose boot problems with just these. So...I would like to come up with a collection of "tiny" implementations of UNIX programs that only rely on the shell, or the shell and little else. Does such a set of programs already exist? If not, would anyone like to contribute examples of such programs? Mail them to me, and I'll post a summary and make an ftp-able archive if there's enough response. Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu (Internet) moore@utkvx (BITNET) Keith Moore Internet: moore@cs.utk.edu University of Tenn. CS Dept. BITNET: moore@utkvx 107 Ayres Hall, UT Campus Telephone: +1 615 974 0822 Knoxville Tennessee 37996-1301 ``Friends don't let friends use YP (or NIS)''