Hi Karl; On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 22:16, Karl Ove Hufthammer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have just started using busybox, and am impressed by the speed of > some of its utilities. However, when I tried using it on one of my > POSIX-based scripts, I got an error messages indicating that the ‘command’ > command isn’t implemented. > > Here is an example script, which gives ‘command: not found’ errors when run > through busybox ash or sh: > > --- > command -v grep > command -v ls > --- > > The ‘command’ command is defined in POSIX: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/command.html > > I’m using the binary builds for my distro (Mandriva 2009.1), so initially I > expected that some compile options were missing when building this. > However, looking at the list of commands at > http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html > it seems there really is no ‘command’ command. Is this true, and is there > any > reason why? It does seem like quite a simple command. :) Busybox aims to be small, not necessarily 100% posix. They might accept your patch if you submit one, though. Maybe they never needed it before. Allan
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