pycoreutils 0.0.6a

Coreutils in Pure Python

What is this?

PyCoreutils is a pure Python implementation of various standard UNIX commands, like ‘ls’, ‘cp’ and ‘gzip’. It also contains sh.py, a shell-like environment which will make Unix-users feel right at home on the Windows command-prompt.

Now why you wanna go and do that?

1. Fun!
2. Have a Linux-like shell environment in Windows.
3. Create a Python-only Linux distribution.

Requirements

PyCoreutils requires Python 2.6 or greater. It also works on Python 3.

Install

To install the last stable version, use:

pip install pycoreutils

or

easy_install pycoreutils

To install the latest development code, try:

pip install bzr+http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~hanz/pycoreutils/trunk

Downloads

Releases and documentation can be found at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycoreutils. The source code can be found at https://launchpad.net/pycoreutils.

Haven’t I seen this before?

David Cantrell also has a project with the same name at https://github.com/dcantrell/pycoreutils. His project is a little different in that it uses C-bindings, is GPL-licensed and is structured differently.

License

Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Hans van Leeuwen. See LICENSE.txt for details.

Warning

This is alpha software, Not all the flags in the help-section are implemented, and some behave different than one might expect.

List of available commands

• arch
• base64
• basename
• bunzip2
• bzip2
• cal
• cat
• cd
• chroot
• chown
• chroot
• cp
• crond
• dirname
• env
• expand
• gunzip
• gzip
• httpd
• id
• kill
• ln
• logger
• ls
• md5sum
• mkdir
• mktemp
• mv
• nl
• pwd
• rm
• rmdir
• sendmail
• seq
• sh
• sha1sum
• sha224sum
• sha256sum
• sha384sum
• sha512sum
• shred
• shuf
• sleep
• smtpd
• sort
• tar
• tee
• touch
• uname
• wc
• wget
• whoami
• yes
• zip