For coreutils, there are two build artifacts:
1. multicall executable (each utility is a separate static library)
2. individual utilities (still separate library with main wrapper)
To avoid namespace collision, each utility crate is defined as
"uu_{CMD}". The end user only sees the original utility name. This
simplifies build.rs.
Also, the thin wrapper for the main() function is no longer contained in
the crate. It has been separated into a dedicated file. This was
necessary to work around Cargo's need for the crate name attribute to
match the name in the respective Cargo.toml.
This allows a user to create builds with or without the Unix-specific
utilities. Right now the Makefile handles this, but this is needed to
migrate away from make.
To build Unix-specific utilities (default):
cargo build
(or)
cargo build --features unix --no-default-features
To build without the Unix-specific utilities:
cargo build --features generic --no-default-features
To avoid linking issues with Rust's libtest, the crate for the test
utility was changed to 'uutest'. However, the user doesn't need to see
this so a few hoops were jumped through to make this transparent.
I also updated the make rules to build the individual features first and
then uutils. This makes 'make && make test' look more organized.
Everything in src/common has been moved to src/uucore. This is defined
as a Cargo library, instead of directly included. This gives us
flexibility to make the library an external crate in the future.
Fixes#717.
Implemented as follows:
Usage: expr EXPRESSION
or: expr OPTION
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
Print the value of EXPRESSION to standard output. A blank line below
separates increasing precedence groups. EXPRESSION may be:
ARG1 | ARG2 ARG1 if it is neither null nor 0, otherwise ARG2
ARG1 & ARG2 ARG1 if neither argument is null or 0, otherwise 0
ARG1 < ARG2 ARG1 is less than ARG2
ARG1 <= ARG2 ARG1 is less than or equal to ARG2
ARG1 = ARG2 ARG1 is equal to ARG2
ARG1 != ARG2 ARG1 is unequal to ARG2
ARG1 >= ARG2 ARG1 is greater than or equal to ARG2
ARG1 > ARG2 ARG1 is greater than ARG2
ARG1 + ARG2 arithmetic sum of ARG1 and ARG2
ARG1 - ARG2 arithmetic difference of ARG1 and ARG2
ARG1 * ARG2 arithmetic product of ARG1 and ARG2
ARG1 / ARG2 arithmetic quotient of ARG1 divided by ARG2
ARG1 % ARG2 arithmetic remainder of ARG1 divided by ARG2
STRING : REGEXP [NOT IMPLEMENTED] anchored pattern match of REGEXP in STRING
match STRING REGEXP [NOT IMPLEMENTED] same as STRING : REGEXP
substr STRING POS LENGTH [NOT IMPLEMENTED] substring of STRING, POS counted from 1
index STRING CHARS [NOT IMPLEMENTED] index in STRING where any CHARS is found, or 0
length STRING [NOT IMPLEMENTED] length of STRING
+ TOKEN interpret TOKEN as a string, even if it is a
keyword like 'match' or an operator like '/'
( EXPRESSION ) value of EXPRESSION
Beware that many operators need to be escaped or quoted for shells.
Comparisons are arithmetic if both ARGs are numbers, else lexicographical.
Pattern matches return the string matched between \( and \) or null; if
\( and \) are not used, they return the number of characters matched or 0.
Exit status is 0 if EXPRESSION is neither null nor 0, 1 if EXPRESSION is null
or 0, 2 if EXPRESSION is syntactically invalid, and 3 if an error occurred.
Environment variables:
* EXPR_DEBUG_TOKENS=1 dump expression's tokens
* EXPR_DEBUG_RPN=1 dump expression represented in reverse polish notation
* EXPR_DEBUG_SYA_STEP=1 dump each parser step
* EXPR_DEBUG_AST=1 dump expression represented abstract syntax tree
Builds the uutils multicall binary containing all utils (except stdbuf)
by default. To only build a subset
`cargo --no-default-features --features <utils>`
can be used.
Whats missing is building the standalone binaries and a mechanism to
automatically disable the build of unix only utils on windows.
This patch begins the work of modernizing uutils to work with 1.0-ish
Rust. In particular, it
1. Updates to the latest submodules.
2. Convert mkmain.rs, mkuutils.rs, and src/uutils/uutils.rs
to new slice syntax and use of new io, fs, and path APIs.
3. Convert src/common/util.rs to new io, fs, and path APIs.
4. Convert fmt to use new APIs.
