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



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Best regards,
 Paul                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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