is it possible to do aliases with busybox?
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Just had a look at the busybox source and it says it uses the contents of environment variable ENV as a startup script so you could do
Code:
ENV=/system/sd/.bashrc ash
Code:
cd /system/sd
ash -lI also saw that it will record command history to the file named in HISTFILE so you may want to make your startup script look like this
Code:
alias ls='ls --color=always'
HISTFILE=/system/sd/.histfile
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pre-compiled gnu bash
I can't remember where I found it, however, if you know enough to set it up, I have a pre-compiled gnu bash 3.2 file that allows you to execute something like this:
su -c '/path/to/bash --rcfile /path/to/.bashrc'
in the terminal emulator and you'll execute a bash shell with the .bashrc
I attached the pre-compiled gnu bash 3.2 in a zip file on the post, good luck getting it running! google is your friend!
I also compiled bash 4.0 for myself to use, but its kind of buggy since it was actually one of the first binaries that i've ever compiled on linux but it works! its just really slow >.>
I followed this tutorial to compile it
http://www.kbrandt.com/category/bash
I can't remember where I found it, however, if you know enough to set it up, I have a pre-compiled gnu bash 3.2 file that allows you to execute something like this:
su -c '/path/to/bash --rcfile /path/to/.bashrc'
in the terminal emulator and you'll execute a bash shell with the .bashrc
I attached the pre-compiled gnu bash 3.2 in a zip file on the post, good luck getting it running! google is your friend!
I also compiled bash 4.0 for myself to use, but its kind of buggy since it was actually one of the first binaries that i've ever compiled on linux
but it works! its just really slow >.>I followed this tutorial to compile it
http://www.kbrandt.com/category/bash
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Just had a look at the busybox source and it says it uses the contents of environment variable ENV as a startup script so you could do
and it'll read /system/sd/.bashrc for your startup commands. Altrernatively, if you invoke it as a login shell (ash -l), it'll source /etc/profile then .profile from the current directory so if you create /system/sd/.profile to contain alias ls='ls --color=always' then as long as you do thisCode:ENV=/system/sd/.bashrc ash
you'll have your alias (I just tried this with JF1.51 and it worked great).Code:cd /system/sd ash -l
I also saw that it will record command history to the file named in HISTFILE so you may want to make your startup script look like this
Also, keep in mind that this isn't bash -- you need to use ash shell scripting semantics.Code:alias ls='ls --color=always' HISTFILE=/system/sd/.histfile
