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Shell & Utilities

Add support for binary VB copies to cp command

I've long just accepted that it is impossible to copy a VB datasets containing binary characters (like a x'15 newline) command to a unix file and subsequently restore the VB dataset from that. I had initially assumed that the -F rec option of the ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Submitted

Add "-S" or '--split-string' option to /usr/bin/env

This would allow seperate arguments to be specified on the shebang of z/os unix shell scripts. This would benefit all users of z/OS unix shell scripts. It'd be great if this feature behaved the same as GNU/coreutils 'env' , this page has details o...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Submitted

Enhance Shell CP utility to create immutable load module copies

The z/OS UNIX CP command when copying a load module from a data set to a data set does not create an immutable copy. The resulting copy differs from the original source load module which can be seen using SuperC, this is because cp calls the binde...
3 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Submitted

Add color variants of core shell utilities

On some Linux distributions they have implemented versions of shell utilities like ls that use ANSI escape sequences to show color over SSH connections. It would be seriously useful if z/OS shell utilities had a color variants, as it would make re...
4 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Submitted

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