Support built-in shell commands for an improved Windows support

[lunny]

For cross-platform usage, some built-in commands will helpful.

[andreynering]

Hi @lunny,

So, this is something that was discussed before, and I actually wanted to solve this from the beginning, but it requires a considerable amount of work.

You may want to take a look at mvdan/sh#93 and mvdan/sh#97.

In short, it requires someone to implement these built-ins on the https://github.com/mvdan/sh project to make them work on Windows.

It was also discussed before to just use https://github.com/ericlagergren/go-coreutils, but most of these implementations are done on a main package, and thus require work before being able to be imported on https://github.com/mvdan/sh.

If anyone reading this issue is willing to help, let me know. Just make sure to sync with the author on mvdan/sh#93 before starting anything.

[andreynering]

Just found the issue I was looking for: ericlagergren/go-coreutils#114

I wonder if this is also useful ?
https://github.com/u-root/u-root

You can inject what commands you want via a template approach too:
https://github.com/u-root/u-root/blob/master/templates.go

Or cant we use the ones from Mage ? as a base ?

[andreynering]

Hi @gedw99,

I wonder if this is also useful? https://github.com/u-root/u-root

Hmm... interesting project. It definitely have some core tools implemented. Would still require work, though, since these tools are main package (so, not importable).

Or cant we use the ones from Mage?

Mage fallsback to system tools just like Tusk.

[bigBron]

So, it's 2023 now, and there's no news?