Feature Request: Busybox style '--install'

[EmperorArthur]

Details

Please add a busybox style --install option when running the "coreutils" binary as shipped in the releases. Including supporting --install -s <folder>

This is a nice to have feature which creates either hard-links or soft-links for each of the functions in the defined folder. With all of the links pointing to the real path of the binary which ran the command.

Reasoning

Right now I can download a release. However, per the readme, if I want more than have a single binary, I need to install the entire build system.

• I would like to be able to set up a system with the coreutils binary as simply as I do with busybox.
• Releases do not include an install script or easy method to run coreutils functions other than coreutils <function>.
• coreutils -h and "README.md" included in releases never states that re-naming or linking the binary will cause it to behave as the named function.
  • The closest it comes is mentioning it can be built as "a multicall (BusyBox-type) binary"

PS: I apologize if this has been requested before. GitHub seems to auto-strip quotes when searching for "--install"!

[oech3]

Dupe of #11115 .
I strongly disagree with embedding build time things into the executable. You should manually symlink from --list.