Thread: Grep
View Single Post
qwerty12's Avatar
Posts: 4,274 | Thanked: 5,358 times | Joined on Sep 2007 @ Looking at y'all and sighing
#7
Originally Posted by Benson View Post
Removing busybox usually means a toasted device... reflash required. You can extract the binaries from the package and put them in /usr/local, or maybe force the install, leaving all busybox stuff except grep intact. But removing busybox and replacing all symlinks with GNU utils AFAIK has never been accomplished successfully.
I kept busybox installed and got coreutils to install fine with a bit of hacking. But ls -la and some mv commands would segfault so I installed color-ls (gnu anyway) and symlinked mv back to busybox.

Then I reflashed because of unrelated reasons and just stick with my ipv6 busybox,