Welcome to
Nutbox.org!
Nutbox is a slowly growing collection of about fifty handy console utilities written in C# for .NET and Mono. Nutbox offers POSIX commands and other commands. Nutbox works natively on Windows (Win64/x64 and Win32/x86), Linux (x64 and x86), Solaris (all variants), and Macintosh (x86), and is thus highly portable. Nutbox runs natively on any platform that supports .NET or Mono.
If you are unfamiliar with .NET and Mono, they are implementations of Microsoft’s brilliant .NET framework, which in turn is a sophisticated programming platform that includes very fast just-in-time (on the fly) compilers that generate reasonably fast programs. .NET/Mono is sort of Microsoft’s offering for a real, usable alternative to Java. If you know nothing about .NET, please set aside a couple of hours to research this remarkable technology: Try googling “.NET introduction” and so on.
Nutbox has been donated to the Public Domain by its author, Mikael Lyngvig, as an expression of intense dislike of the current flood of limited, you-can't-do-much-with-this-socalled-free-software licenses that are festering the planet. Nutbox is free as in free: You may sell it, give it away, copy it, modify it, mutilate it, do whatever you want with it - and you don't even need to ask my permission to do so or tell me about it. If you use Nutbox for something interesting, please feel free to let me know, but don't go about thinking that you have to do anything in return for this software.
Documentation
Each command contains its own documentation, which can be displayed using this command:
command --help | more
News
2012.04.10:
- Nutbox v1.00 released.
- v1.00 is virtually identical to the v0.20 release, except for lots of source code changes as I have decided to rename the Nutbox.* namespace to Org.Nutbox.*.
- A portable build tool,
build, has been introduced as a replacement for Nutmake. - Nutbox now officially carries the name
Nutbox instead of NutBox (with a capital B). - Nutbox now officially builds with .NET v2.0 and above, as well as Mono v2.6 and above.
- The project is not really progressing anymore because of lack of public interest in the project.
2011.11.07:
- www.nutbox.org relaunched as a wiki, which can be extended endlessly.
2011.11.04:
- Nutbox v0.20 released. This adds a
–recurse option to the wc tool and a –r shorthand to fileedit.
2011.09.04:
- Nutbox v0.19 released. This adds a
–recurse option to the ext tool and .NET 3.5+ support.
2010.04.11:
- Nutbox v0.18 released. This release fixes a minor bug in
dircmp (which I use all the time).
2010.03.17:
- Nutbox v0.17 released. This is only a bug fix release that fixes the broken
dircmp command.
2010.03.16:
- Nutbox v0.16 released. This is primarily a bug fix release but it does add a few new commands.
2010.01.23:
- Nutbox v0.15 released. The main feature is the addition of the
--exclude option to dircmp.
2010.01.18:
- Nutbox v0.14 released. This is a bug fix release that fixes the misinterpreting
dircmp command.
2010.01.16:
- Nutbox v0.13 released. Don’t let the version number fool you: Nutbox is highly usable!
- www.nutbox.org restructured slightly to make things easier to find and read.