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sysadmin/scripting utilities, distributed as a single binary

17 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 5 stories, 12 comments · first 2020-04-14 · latest 2025-05-09

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    SysBox: Sysadmin/scripting utilities, distributed as a single binary
    story by Bluestein · 2025-05-09 · 0 comments
  2. I copied the same idea in my static collection of sysadmin utilities: https://github.com/skx/sysbox/
    comment by stevekemp · 2025-05-09 · in From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
  3. I have a collection of small sysadming/scripting utilities distributed as a single binary here: https://github.com/skx/sysbox One of those is "splay" to sleep a random amount of time, before running a command. Very useful to avoid lots of…
    comment by stevekemp · 2024-11-20 · in Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs)
  4. …amount of time. It's one of those things that is useful surprisingly often, even outside cron. https://github.com/skx/sysbox
    comment by stevekemp · 2023-05-09 · in OpenBSD cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps
  5. …with my sysbox project, collecting tools together in one golang binary with various subcommands: https://github.com/skx/sysbox I use at least one of those tools on a daily basis, though I suspect they're not so universally useful.
    comment by stevekemp · 2023-02-10 · in The Rust Implementation of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust
  6. …busybox-inspired collection of tools, written in golang, which includes a simple HTTP client too: https://github.com/skx/sysbox Those are just a couple of examples, I'm certain there are multiple other choices out there. But I guess curl…
    comment by stevekemp · 2022-11-26 · in 89 Operating Systems
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    Show HN: A collection of sysadmin utilities, in a single binary
    story by stevekemp · 2022-06-01 · 0 comments
  8. That's pretty cool. I wrote something similar in my static collection of sysadmin tools - https://github.com/skx/sysbox - In my simple pre-processor I only allow two special things: #include "file/goes/here" #execute ls -l | wc -l Though…
    comment by stevekemp · 2021-07-29 · in M4 as a templating language (2020)
  9. I bundled together a small collection of sysadmin/scripting-tools here: https://github.com/skx/sysbox Those are probably amongst the things that I use most often which are non-standard.
    comment by stevekemp · 2021-06-12 · in Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
  10. …use integrated subcommands. Very helpful and makes deployment easy by having only a single binary: https://github.com/skx/sysbox Not bash/shell, but similar and useful idea to experiment with.
    comment by stevekemp · 2021-03-16 · in Sd: My Script Directory
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    Show HN: A collection of sysadmin utilities, in a single binary
    story by stevekemp · 2020-11-10 · 0 comments
  12. …for myself, which I find very useful. It includes a subcommand for YAML, JSON, and XML validation: https://github.com/skx/sysbox I've not considered a pretty-printer, but it isn't a bad idea to add such a thing.
    comment by stevekemp · 2020-09-28 · in Show HN: DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS
  13. …by a busy-box style collection of utilities written in golang (mostly to ease installation): https://github.com/skx/sysbox
    comment by stevekemp · 2020-08-22 · in Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012)
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    Show HN: Small collection of useful Golang sysadmin/scripting utilities
    story by stevekemp · 2020-05-14 · 0 comments
  15. By coincidence I added a trivial finger-server to my golang utility toolbox today: https://github.com/skx/sysbox Create ~/.plan and clients can query it remotely, just like in the old days.
    comment by stevekemp · 2020-05-13 · in Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger)
  16. …days I've been reworking them into a single binary so that I can deploy them even more easily: https://github.com/skx/sysbox That, coupled with my dotfiles (mostly a literate emacs config written in markdown), makes me pretty productive…
    comment by stevekemp · 2020-05-09 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?
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    Sysadmin tools, written in a busybox-like fashion
    story by todotask · 2020-04-14 · 0 comments