Package Request: moreutils

[mdomlop]

Package description

moreutils is a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.

So far, it includes the following utilities:

• chronic: runs a command quietly unless it fails
• combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations
• errno: look up errno names and descriptions
• ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output
• ifne: run a program if the standard input is not empty
• isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8
• lckdo: execute a program with a lock held
• mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first
• parallel: run multiple jobs at once
• pee: tee standard input to pipes
• sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
• ts: timestamp standard input
• vidir: edit a directory in your text editor
• vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe
• zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command

Since termux is primarily a text-only environment, this set of small utilities is quite convenient to make users' lives easier on certain occasions.

Link to home page and sources

1. Home page: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
2. Source code: http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/moreutils/moreutils_0.63.orig.tar.xz

Additional information

Because it is a small set of simple utilities and is already packaged for Debian, I don't think it's complicated to include it in termux.

[kenneth-Q]

Due to getloadavg(use by parallel.c), it could build on android 9 API level 29.
I have no device running on android 9.
Sorry.

[ghost]

it could build on android 9 API level 29

API 29 is Android Q.

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It should be possible to obtain loadavg value from sysinfo().

[ghost]

Package is now available.

You can obtain it with these commands:

pkg install moreutils

• Utility parallel is disabled currently due to getloadavg().
• Utility chronic is disabled due to external perl modules.