libBadPenguin is available here: http://www.badpenguin.org/pub/software/libbadpenguin/ it does provide a C library and some shell scripts. the library include functions to handle: extracting TAR archive with progress bar support handling colored output to terminal without the Curses or other libraries file and directory io routing simple C “chained list” structure In detail: badpenguin-ansi.h Include macros and constant [...]

libhardware is a very small static C library used in puppy Linux to access and detect hardware at low level including partition data, USB devices and more