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2008-01-18 , 10:59
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Originally Posted by cvmiller View Post
Bash is a good shell replacement for the minimal included ash, which does not support aliases.
Er, mind explaining this, then?

Code:
BusyBox v1.6.1 (2007-09-27 18:08:59 EEST) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

Nokia-N800-50-2:~# alias cdl="cd $1;ls -al"
Nokia-N800-50-2:~# cdl /home/    
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root            0 Dec 11 10:41 .
drwxr-xr-x   24 root     root            0 Dec 31  1969 ..
drwxr-x---   41 user     users           0 Jan 18 04:05 user
Nokia-N800-50-2:~#