s6-portable-utils is a set of tiny general Unix utilities, often performing well-known tasks such as cut and grep, but optimized for simplicity and small size. They were designed for embedded systems and other constrained environments, but work everywhere. Other sets of small utilities are usually system-specific; for instance, the (otherwise excellent) BusyBox project only works on Linux.
| Tags | SysAdmin Utilities Command Line Tools |
|---|---|
| Licenses | ISC |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Unix Unix-like |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release fixes another bug in s6-tail, with the -c option. (It should be the last one this time.)


Release Notes: This is a code cleanup release. Built binaries should be smaller on non-x86 embedded targets.


Release Notes: This release fixes a bug in s6-tail, which did not handle non-positive line numbers correctly.


Release Notes: This release fixes a bug with s6-pause, which would not work when linked dynamically against a shared libstddjb.so.


Release Notes: This release fixes the s6-head program, which did not handle the -c option properly.