[BusyBox] Sed/Sh/Env/Ifconfig

Neil Faulks neil at dcs.kcl.ac.uk
Wed Nov 15 10:51:46 UTC 2000


Thank you for writing busybox! I am making great use of it in my
distribution.  I offer the following bugs and wishes for busybox 0.47:

sed - doesn't support enough features so that I can use it when
compiling GNU sed. This is a pity.

env - env is available when running the busybox shell, but not
otherwise.  Please can this be made into a normal command as well. I want to use it to find programs on the path - as in:

#! /bin/env perl
.... perl script ....

sh - it should be possible to set variables without having to use the
"export" keyword.

sh - it would be useful if the busybox sh could be invoked under a
different name (eg bush). That way I can change /bin/sh to /bin/bash
during the install, but still keep an busybox shell around as a backup
and for special busybox scripts that carefully only use busybox
features and syntax.

ifconfig - there are lots of nice network tools, but no ifconfig!
Please can we have one.

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Neil Faulks <neil at dcs.kcl.ac.uk>
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