Aliases with Busybox?

littlebigman · 12-14-2010, 05:01 AM

Hello

On a small Linux appliance using Busybox to provide the usual suspects, I'd like to create an alias "ll" that would translate to "ls -al" like I'm used to.

Apparently, "alias" is not part of Busybox:

Code:

> echo $SHELL
/bin/sh

> ls -al /sbin/sh*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1000     1000            7 Jan  1  2007 /sbin/sh -> busybox

> alias ll='ls -al'
alias: not found

Does someone know of a trick to get Busybox to handle aliases?

Thank you.

bigrigdriver · 12-14-2010, 10:03 PM

In your user's home directory you should find a file named .shrc. In that file, you may already have default aliases. Just add another: alias ll="ls -al"

To have the alias available immediately, when you have edited and saved your .shrc, issue the command "source .shrc".

littlebigman · 12-15-2010, 01:25 AM

Thanks, but it looks like the uClinux that powers this appliance doesn't include alias:

Code:

/root> source .shrc
source: not found

/root> alias ll='ls -al'
alias: not found

I'll check how Busybox was compiled, and see if I can add alias to it.

Thank you.