Native Go implementations of as many standard utilities as possible.

The goal of this project is to implement standard POSIX shell utilities in pure Go. Ideally without relying too heavily on external libraries. POSIX is in no way perfect, but neither is a world where typing make install does something completely different on a user's machine as what you expected when you wrote the makefile. My hope is that by implementing the tools that I rely on, I can gain a better understanding of how to use them. And I hope that these alternative implementations will be of use to somebody, if not for practical use, then at least as an academic exercise.

If you'd like to contribute, please open a PR. Be sure to explain what your proposed changes do. If you're unsure about something, or don't know how to make a change that you'd like to see, open an issue and I'll see what I can do 🙂

Please be sure to also read the CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md and CONTRIBUTING.md guidelines.

A good place to start is looking at the actual standard itself. It is full of technical documentation, which can be rather dense, so another good place to look is at a simple example such as the true utility.