<div> </div> <p>I've got a project where I want to do some stuff that would be trivial in bash but where I want/need a binary with has zero external dependencies. So, <em>has anyone written a self contained lib (i.e. not a wrapper around system()) that lets you do bash like stuff from inside C?</em></p> <p>Off hand, the things I expect to need are: <code>cp</code>, <code>rm</code>, <code>wget</code>, <code>tftp</code>, <code>ar</code>, <code>tar</code>, <code>guzip</code> and maybe <code>dpkg</code> but I think I can side step that one.</p> <hr> <p>To answer the comments: I'm looking for something along the lines of a statically linked busy-box but where I don't need a shell file as a program for it and where things I don't use automatically don't even get linked in.</p>

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I've got a project where I want to do some stuff that would be trivial in bash but where I want/need a binary with has zero external dependencies. So, has anyone written a self contained lib (i.e. not a wrapper around system()) that lets you do bash like stuff from inside C?

Off hand, the things I expect to need are: cp, rm, wget, tftp, ar, tar, guzip and maybe dpkg but I think I can side step that one.

To answer the comments: I'm looking for something along the lines of a statically linked busy-box but where I don't need a shell file as a program for it and where things I don't use automatically don't even get linked in.