Hi,

I am having many problems with compatibility among maemo shell commands and modern GNU commands. Any help will be appreciated:

1) As an example, xargs does not accept the option -0 (the only reason why I use xargs), or egrep does not accept the option -U. I suppose that this is to make the programs smaller/lighter, but it makes bash scripts hard to port. How do you solve this?

2) I installed bash 3.2 from extras, and I use history expansion a lot. I am used to expand using some leters of the command name, like: 'mo<UP>' to show previous commands that begin with 'mo'. But maemo bash ignores the 'mo', and shows the very last command. What I am missing?

3) When using history expansion with the <UP> arrow, sometimes there are some 'trash' of previous commands that makes hard to edit them. Like:

Nokia:~> firefox httmediaplayer-ui

instead of

Nokia:~> mediaplayer-ui

Maybe this has to do with the PS1 variable I use? Or terminfo?

4) I installed mc, but it shows lots of trash in my xterm. Perhaps the TERM=xterm variable is incorrect?

And, BTW, where can I find maemo xargs man page?

Thanks,

L.