Hello Joshua, Friday, December 28, 2007, 9:19:37 AM, you wrote:
> Does anyone know if ~ is working properly under the busybox shell? It > seems odd to me. Apparently, it doesn't, at least in the version of busybox that A uses ;-). > In other linux systems I use, I can have ~ as part of > the path and autocomplete still works (and auto-expands the tilde) - > bash is the default shell on most other linuxes I use and I have heard > that for space reasons, bash is not included with busybox. Well, with 4 Linux'es I have right now around me (Gentoo on laptop, OpenWRT on router, Vendor Leenoox(tm) on NAS, Ansgtrom on PDA), only Gentoo has bash, so maybe you're not right about "most" ;-). > The other thing this is effecting is a preferences file for roadmap - a > tilde in the file does not expand to home (it does under bash) and so > home directories must be spelled out in full - this is somewhat > limiting, as it would be reasonable to patch roadmap's default > preferences file to include a list of all reasonable map locations > (including a generic home directory) > Apologies if this falls under 'idiot questions'. I have tried googling > to no avail. "ipkg install bash"? Also, have a look at task-proper-tools.bb . > Regards, > Josh -- Best regards, Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
