Commands tagged busybox (3)

  • stringContains: Determining if a String Contains a Substring

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    function stringContains() { [ -z "${2##*$1*}" ] && [ -z "$1" -o -n "$2" ]; };
    mikhail · 2019-04-12 20:51:27 34
  • Define words with google. (busybox version)

    This is a minimalistic version of the ubiquitious Google definition screen scraper. This version was designed not only to run fast, but to work using BusyBox. BusyBox is a collection of basic Unix tools that have been compiled into a single binary to save space on tiny installations of Unix. For example, although my phone doesn't have perl or the GNU utilities, it does have BusyBox's stripped down versions of wget, tr, and sed. It turns out that those tools suffice for many tasks. Known Bugs: This script does not handle HTML entities at all. I don't think there's an easy way to do that within BusyBox, but I'd love to see it if someone could do it. Also, this script can only define a single word, not phrases. (Well, you could if you typed in %20, but that'd be gross.) Lastly, this script does not show the URL where definitions were found. Given the randomness of the Net, that last bit of information is often key. Show Sample Output


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    wget -q -U busybox -O- "http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF8&q=define%3A$1" | tr '<' '\n' | sed -n 's/^li>\(.*\)/\1\n/p'
    hackerb9 · 2010-02-01 13:01:47 9
  • Synchronize date and time with a server over ssh (BusyBox-friendly)

    Useful if localhost is a small machine running BusyBox, which uses a slightly unusual format to set the date. Remotehost can be pretty much any Linux machine, including one running BusyBox. Uses UTC for portability.


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    date -u `ssh user@remotehost date -u '+%m%d%H%M%Y.%S'`
    scruss · 2014-02-10 03:11:14 6

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