home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.

   TUXPOWER      Advocacy for the Linux operating system      1,237 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 800 of 1,237   
   Aug to All   
   I just discovered busybox, for Windows..   
   13 Sep 24 04:08:27   
   
   MSGID: 2:460/256 000004af   
   PID: tg_BBS_v0.7.1   
   TZUTC: 0300   
   CHRS: CP866 2   
   TGUID: 1223717052   
   REPLYTO 2:460/256 1223717052   
   RealName: August Abolins 2:221/1.58   
   Hi All...   
      
   I just discovered busybox, for Windows..   
      
   H:\>busybox   
   BusyBox v1.37.0-FRP-5398-g89ae34445 (2024-06-25 08:38:11 BST)   
   (mingw32-gcc 14.1.1-3.fc40; mingw32-crt 11.0.1-3.fc40; glob)   
      
   It's just one approx 600kb program that contains a selection of unix-like   
   commands.    
      
   The commands/functions available are:   
      
   Currently defined functions:   
           [, [[, ar, arch, ascii, ash, awk, base32, base64, basename, bash, bc,   
   bunzip2, busybox,   
           bzcat, bzip2, cal, cat, cdrop, chattr, chmod, cksum, clear, cmp, comm,   
   cp, cpio, crc32,   
           cut, date, dc, dd, df, diff, dirname, dos2unix, dpkg, dpkg-deb, drop,   
   du, echo, ed, egrep,   
           env, expand, expr, factor, false, fgrep, find, fold, free, fsync,   
   ftpget, ftpput, getopt,   
           grep, groups, gunzip, gzip, hd, head, hexdump, httpd, iconv, id,   
   inotifyd, install, ipcalc,   
           jn, kill, killall, lash, less, link, ln, logname, ls, lsattr, lzcat,   
   lzma, lzop, lzopcat,   
           make, man, md5sum, mkdir, mktemp, mv, nc, nl, nproc, od, paste, patch,   
   pdpmake, pdrop,   
           pgrep, pidof, pipe_progress, pkill, printenv, printf, ps, pwd,   
   readlink, realpath, reset,   
           rev, rm, rmdir, rpm, rpm2cpio, sed, seq, sh, sha1sum, sha256sum,   
   sha3sum, sha512sum, shred,   
           shuf, sleep, sort, split, ssl_client, stat, strings, su, sum, sync,   
   tac, tail, tar, tee,   
           test, time, timeout, touch, tr, true, truncate, ts, tsort, ttysize,   
   uname, uncompress,   
           unexpand, uniq, unix2dos, unlink, unlzma, unlzop, unxz, unzip, uptime,   
   usleep, uudecode,   
           uuencode, vi, watch, wc, wget, which, whoami, whois, xargs, xxd, xz,   
   xzcat, yes, zcat   
      
   QUESTION..  What are the [ and [[ functions as per the first line above?   
      
   --    
    /|ug    
    https://t.me/aabolins   
      
   --- Want fido for iOS/MacOS/Android/Win/Linux? https://shrtco.de/tpJ9yV   
    * Origin: Fido by Telegram BBS from Stas Mishchenkov (2:460/256)   
   SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 153/757 7715   
   SEEN-BY: 154/10 30 203/0 214/22 218/0 1 601 700 840 850 860 870 880   
   SEEN-BY: 218/930 940 221/0 226/30 227/114 229/110 114 206 300 317   
   SEEN-BY: 229/400 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120 5832 266/512 280/464   
   SEEN-BY: 280/5003 282/1038 291/111 292/8125 301/1 310/31 320/219 322/757   
   SEEN-BY: 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 460/16 58 256 1124 5858 467/888   
   SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848 770/1 5020/400 5054/30 5075/35   
   PATH: 460/256 58 280/464 103/705 218/700 229/426   
      

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca