Re: No ‘command’ command in busybox?

[Allan Clark]

Hi Karl;
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 22:16, Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl at huftis.org> 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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