TIP: /osh console utilities are accessible on the phone

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I noticed earlier today, that it is possible to use all of the webtop's console utilities on the phone's command line by simply changing the PATH.

The PATH you need:

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/system/sbin:/system/bin:/system/xbin

To make life really easy, make a symlink in /system/xbin to bash, and put the PATH into /osh/root/.bashrc.

Also, there is a full libc on the phone, so that could open up more possibilities on the phone as well.

This is very nice thanks! One thing though, not sure if it's because I'm using a windows command prompt or not, but using bash through adb I get a bunch of funny characters on the screen for example:

# ls /bin/bash
ls /bin/bash
←[1;32m/bin/bash←[0m
# ls -h /bin/bash
ls -h /bin/bash
←[1;32m/bin/bash←[0m

Do you know how to remove those?

Thanks for the tip!

Those are color codes, the console you are using is reporting itself as capable of displaying colors and really isn't!

Check around for a switch to turn off the color codes (or perhaps use another version of ls like busybox ls)