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Cosmopolitan Third Edition

Linux distro of fat binaries that run on six OSes for ARM64/AMD64.

It's called apelink.c and it's a fine piece of poetry that weaves together the Portable Executable, ELF, Mach-O, and PKZIP file formats into shell scripts that run on most PCs and servers without needing to be installed. More specifically, the above zip file contains fat binaries for bash, emacs, python, zsh, lua, qjs, vim, nano, ape, less, grep, curl, wget, tidy, zip, unzip, zstd, bzip2, sqlite3, life, cpuid, nesemu1, make, redbean, greenbean, datasette, assimilate, ctags, pledge, verynice, find, tree, awk,[, b2sum, base32, base64, basename, basenc, berry, brotli, cat, chcon, chgrp, chown, chroot, cksum, clang-format, comm, csplit, cut, dash, date, df, dir, dircolors, dirname, du, echo, emacsclient, env, expand, expr, factor, false, fmt, fold, groups, head, id, install, join, kill, link, links, ln, locate, logname, ls, lz4, md5sum, mkfifo, mknod, mktemp, mktemper, nice, ninja, nl, nohup, nproc, numfmt, od, paste, pathchk, pigz, pinky, pr, printenv, printf, printimage, ptx, pwd, pypack1, readlink, realpath, rm, rmdir, rsync, runcon, script, sed, seq, sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum, sha512sum, shred, shuf, sleep, sort, split, stat, stty, sum, sync, tac, tail, tar, tee, test, timeout, tmux, touch, tr, true, truncate, tsort, tty, ttyinfo, unbourne, unexpand, uniq, unlink, uptime, users, vdir, wall, wc, who, whoami, xargs, xz, and yes. Funding for Cosmopolitan Third Edition was crowdsourced from Justine Tunney's GitHub sponsors and Patreon subscribers, the backing of Mozilla's MIECO program, and the generous contributions of our developer community on Discord.

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