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