is it possible to do aliases with busybox?

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i want to alias ls='ls --color=always'. is there something like a .bashrc file for busybox sh?

Originally Posted by bilclintonsdaman

i want to alias ls='ls --color=always'. is there something like a .bashrc file for busybox sh?

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

ENV=/system/sd/.bashrc ash

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 this

cd /system/sd
ash -l

you'll have your alias (I just tried this with JF1.51 and it worked great).

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

alias ls='ls --color=always'
HISTFILE=/system/sd/.histfile

Also, keep in mind that this isn't bash -- you need to use ash shell scripting semantics.

Sweet! Thanks so much

~/.PROFILE

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if you edit (may need to create it first) the .profile file in your home directory you shouldn't have an issue

i have the following in my ~/.profile file:

alias dir='ls -Alp'
alias cls='clear'

The next time you log in, you'll have your alias's

pre-compiled gnu bash

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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 :P but it works! its just really slow >.>

I followed this tutorial to compile it
http://www.kbrandt.com/category/bash