UPRP

Userspace Programs Replacement Project

This project aims to replace most programs that I (Bowuigi) use with other programs, with a different design targeted towards simplicity and ease of use.

Currently done:

• Shared/colors (library): Handle ANSI escape secuences and choose when to use them
• Management/user (program): Get information about an user or a list of them (needs manpage)
• Management/group (program): Get information about a group or a list of them (needs manpage)
• Utils/xv (program): View files of any type in hexadecimal (needs manpage)
• Management/boas (program): Execute programs as root

In progress

• Management/mop (program): Manage packages with it or with the exposed directory interface

Programs that will most likely be here:

• Text manipulation programs using the capabilities of the shell and some form of structural Regex (My pattern matching library, Match, could help)

• Simple file management programs (like the usual ls, cp, mv, rm)

• Process monitoring (top, ps, kill, pgrep, pkill, killall)

• A text editor with syntax highlighting using mainly structural Regex

• A shell (Very simple, pipes and redirections only)

• System management utilities (hex viewer, socket inspector)

• Service manager (Like Runit)

• Privilege escalation

• Login manager

• A diff that uses structural Regex to show what part of a file changed, and not just the lines, like Rob Pike proposed

• Utilities for shell scripting (test, a testing framework)

• Utilities for planning the future (cal, date, something to combine both with an agenda)

• Extras (JSON conversion, a syntax highlighter, web browser, a cooler who)

• Games (Roguelikes, incrementals, or something like that)

Everything should work on the TTY

The programs should be written in POSIX C99