BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable.
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Linux shell lagging one step
I upgraded busybox from 1.2.1 to 1.7.4 in my embedded system platform and it is connected to linux host via serial cable. Now when I type any command in shell on that embedded system platform like ...
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Is /etc/resolv.conf needed when using a static IP address?
I am trying to configure the IP address of my embedded device. The device should have a static IP address and I attempt to set this using the /etc/network/interfaces file with
iface eth0 inet static
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Unable to get embedded device to ping anything on the network
I have an embedded device, built using buildroot, kernel version 3.6.11 running busybox. The kernel is built with completely default options. I have configured the device according to what the network ...
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updating `/etc/resolv.conf` on a read only filesystem
I currently have a busybox based embedded linux system. The filesystem is a readonly mounted jffs2 filesystem. One problem I've run into is that /etc/resolv.conf can't be updated by DHCP.
Is it ...
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What are special prompt symbols for busybox's sh support?
I want to setup a time prompt on PS1.
But, there is no document about what are symbols the busybox support.
Is there any one know? Here are all which I knew.
PS1='\u@\h: \w \$'
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Need to improve urlencode function
I need a way to URL encode strings with a shell script on a OpenWRT device running old version of busybox.
Right now I ended up with the following code:
urlencode() {
echo "$@" | awk -v ORS="" '{ ...
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Busybox `uname -r` shows wrong kernel version
My kernel is 3.2.27 and /lib/modules/ contains 3.2.27 + folder. But when I am using
/# uname -r
3.1.9+
It's showing a strange output. My problem is that for modprobe depends on uname when I put
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No /proc in a Busybox-based embedded Linux distribution
I am making an embedded Linux distribution and my board is a Raspberry Pi. My kernel version is 3.2.27 without initramfs and my root file system as follows:
/lib /* contains ...
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Create and control start up scripts in BusyBox
I have compiled a custom linux kernel in BusyBox. BusyBox init does not support runlevels. When the kernel boots up in BusyBox, it first executes init which looks for the specified runlevel in ...
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How to chroot into busybox environment?
i have a filesystem build with buildroot, to compile code for a device using a old kernel and uClibc.
Now i want to chroot into the fs. The problem is, i dont have /bin/bash, just /bin/busybox. How ...
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Script matching literal pattern over multiple lines?
I have a multi-line string in the variable $PAT. $PAT must be searched for within the file $FILE. If $PAT is in $FILE, it needs to print the file with $PAT removed. If $PAT is not found, then print ...
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busybox ash PS1 not expanding
I am trying to setup busybox's ash on an embedded system to support expanding the PS1 prompt statement. I have it currently set as
PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
However, all that is displayed is literally ...
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Chaining commands within `watch`
Ok, this is driving me a bit nuts.
I'm trying to watch the number of files in a set of subdirectories.
find . | wc -l correctly returns the number of sub-folders and files.
However, watch 'find . | ...
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Using OGG/Vorbis, is there a way to continue to record to an existing audio file?
I am using Vorbis/ogg to record audio (using arecord and then pipping to oggenc). I have downloaded oggvideotools, which gave me oggCat, which will let me join two previously recorded audio files into ...
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inittab '-' character in process field
I have a an inittab file with the following entry:
console::askfirst:-/bin/ash
According to this Man page a '+' character in the process field means
init will not do utmp and wtmp accounting ...
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bash merge 2 lists removing duplicated
I have an embedded linux system using Busybox (OpenWRT) - so commands are limited. I have two files that look like:
first file
aaaaaa
bbbbbb
cccccc
mmmmmm
nnnnnn
second file
mmmmmm
nnnnnn
...
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How do I safely unmount a network share on Linux STB without crashing (I get GSOD)?
I have a network share named dreambox on C:\dreambox that is shared with the group Everyone in Windows. I have mounted it to /hdd on a Linux-based STB with OpenDreambox (OpenEmbedded) using Telnet ...
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Bash iterate over a list of strings
I have this bash script:
for opt in string1 string2 string3 ... string99
do somestuff
It works, but I would like to replace the explicit listing of my strings with a file which actually contains ...
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How to remove a trailing CRLF from a file?
I have a binary file with a trailing CRLF (2 bytes total) that I want to remove. How should I do it?
Please note that I'm using busybox and I don't have perl.
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Remove 50GB oldest files in busybox when used capacity reaches 95%
Ok i have requested a code here but initial i didn't ask to make it busybox compatible. My bad. I'm new to linux and coding.
The code needs to do the following:
Delete 50GB of oldest data (dir ...
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How can I get the GNU screen command to automatically start with every BusyBox ash session?
On an embedded device with BusyBox installed I want to set it up so that the gnu screen command is automatically started when any BusyBox session is started.
I have seen that I can add the screen ...
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Busybox exits instantly printing 'SIGUSR1'
I was tinkering with my router these days. It runs on MIPS core and the OS is based on Linux. But the builtin busybox is very limited. I managed to export a binary of busybox compiled for MIPS through ...
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Search for a string in files recursively in BusyBox 1.0? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to grep a text recursively on BusyBox 1.0?
How can I search for a string in a file recursively in BusyBox 1.0 if find and grep are not available ?
(I want to telnet ...
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buildroot/busybox: launch bootchartd on startup
I built a custom linux image using buildroot and busybox. To speed up the boot process I'd like to use bootchartd (built-in version of busybox) to profile the process. However bootchartd is not ...
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Busybox NAS appliance
I have a NAS appliance that crashed last weekend. The IT guys apparently / maybe didn't recover it in the right way? There's about 50,000 directories in a "lost+found" directory each with a numeric ...
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Run script as root under Busybox?
I have written a shell script that has to be run as root under Busybox. My first thought was to add the script to /etc/busybox.conf like this:
/sbin/my_script.sh = ssx root.root
But this only works ...
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kexec from within initramfs
Can kexec be used from within initramfs to load up a new image and kernel?
It seems that kexec calls shutdown which then looks for /dev/initctl, which is missing from a busybox initramfs image.
Any ...
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Wake-on-LAN with BusyBox?
Is it possible to implement the wake-on-lan magic packet in bash? I'm using a old, customized BusyBox and don't have ether-wake. Is it possible to replace it with some other shell command, like:
...
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How to develop a small linux distro?
Since Linux uses open-source packages, I was wondering if I could develop my own Linux distro by compiling these packages.
I tried to read the Linux From Scratch book but it's quite big and uses lots ...
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How to grep a text recursively on BusyBox 1.0?
How can I find a file containing a certain string on a BusyBox 1.0, if grep -r does not work?
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shell howto: save multiple binary data files (jpg) to one file with some additional data and separate again
I have a system with restricted calculational power (fritzbox) and functions (busybox) and an webcam, able to deliver JPG files.
Now I'm looking for for a method (based on shell script) to download ...
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Linux 2.6.32, busybox, Identify physical SD device
I have a USB card reader with two SD card interfaces and two USB ports (so it can also act as a USB hub) all on the same device. I am running an embedded Linux device that is unsupervised in its use ...
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Trying to set date on a Linux based machine from another machine
I am running busy box on an embedded platform. I would like to set the date on the box properly each time I reboot the hardware. I have no way to save the time persistently, so am reduced to setting ...
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How to get 3 minutes future date?
I want to get the date 3 minutes on the future. For example, if "now" is
01-Jan-70 00:00:00 GMT
I want to get
01-Jan-80 00:03:00 GMT
How should I do it? I'm working with busybox linux.
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Check a bash variable against a file
I have a bash variable ($HTTP_COOKIE) which contains a string. I want to check if this string matches the content of a given file (token). I'm working on a busybox linux.
How should I do?
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Which sed version is not GNU sed 4.0?
I'm trying to figure out which version of sed that I've got on BusyBox 1.18.3. The --version output is cryptic.
$ sed --version
This is not GNU sed version 4.0
The following code is from the ...
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How do I check busybox version (from busybox)?
I'm using busybox in a embedded system, and I would like to check its version. How do I check the busybox version from within busybox?
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Can I bypass crontab command by putting the file?
I need to create and put my cron file with
cat cronfile1 cronfile2 > cronfile
crontab cronfile -u myuser
This works for me, but I want to know if I can do directly
cat cronfile1 cronfile2 > ...
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when does the system send a SIGTERM to a process?
My server program received a SIGTERM and stopped (with exit code 0). I am surprised by this, as I am pretty sure that there was plenty of memory for it. Under what conditions does linux (busybox) send ...
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non-case-sensitive sed - OpenWrt
the input would be like this in a file:
<sCripT
and the parsing looks like this:
sed -i "s/<script//g" SOMETHING.html
the "/gi" is not good, because OpenWrt doesn't knows it (busybox..):
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Sorting by date
Original:
Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi
Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi
Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi
Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi
Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING ...
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ls pagination on MontaVista with BusyBox
I'm logged into an IP Phone running MontaVista with a very stripped down BusyBox binary (by stripped down, I mean the OEM has removed almost all of its functionality, except the basics like cat, ls ...
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How does one atomically change a symlink to a directory in busybox?
I am trying to (as close as possibly) atomically change a symlink. I've tried:
ln -sf other_dir existing_symlink
That just put the new symlink in the directory that existing_symlink pointed to.
ln ...
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How to enter into BusyBox when booting?
I have occasionally installed cloud-init package in Ubuntu, which blocks me from booting. Neither recovery mode works. Because cloud-init installed some upstart job configuration.
So I want to enter ...
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Trouble getting busybox switch_root to work
I'm working on an embedded ARM Linux system that boots using initramfs. (Here's some background from a couple earlier questions, if you're interested.) So far, thanks in part to help received here, I ...
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How to generate initramfs image with busybox links?
Having been directed to initramfs by an answer to my earlier question (thanks!), I've been working on getting initramfs working. I can now boot the kernel and drop to a shell prompt, where I can ...
