[Boost-users] unix tools

Subject: [Boost-users] unix tools
From: gast128 (gast128_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-02-12 06:09:20

Hello all,

since Boost has marvelous cross platform libraries, wouldn't it be an 
idea to rewrite all the standard commandline unix tools (e.g. cp, grep, 
ps, ls, diff) in c++ with Boost? Libraries like program options, 
filesystem and regex already fullfill a lot of the functionality. Only 
thing left is a person with a good knowledge of the syntax of the cmd 
line tools and ofc a lot of time:).

I mainly use Windows and i really miss these tools from time to time. 
And yes there is Cygwin but I would prefer just the tools without 
changing my environment.