REPASSAC – 3 hours ago  » 

Being a bit lazy – I don’t really want to learn how to recompile busybox source. I am playing with a script and need to know the date.

Hi David,

1. Download the precompiled mips binary from http://www.busybox.net/downloads/binaries/1.18.4/busybox-mips

2. Using FTP, copy it to the /opt/bin directory on the HDR and rename it to busybox.

3. Create a symlink for the date command by opening a telnet session on the HDR and entering:

ln -s /opt/bin/busybox /opt/bin/date

Now when you type

date –help

you should see:

BusyBox v1.18.4 (2011-04-04 19:31:40 CDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: date [OPTIONS] [+FMT] [TIME]

Display time (using +FMT), or set time

Options:

[-s,–set] TIME Set time to TIME

-u,–utc Work in UTC (don’t convert to local time)

-R,–rfc-2822 Output RFC-2822 compliant date string

-I[SPEC] Output ISO-8601 compliant date string

SPEC=’date’ (default) for date only,

‘hours’, ‘minutes’, or ‘seconds’ for date and

time to the indicated precision

-r,–reference FILE Display last modification time of FILE

-d,–date TIME Display TIME, not ‘now’

-D FMT Use FMT for -d TIME conversion

Recognized TIME formats:

hh:mm[:ss]

[YYYY.]MM.DD-hh:mm[:ss]

YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm[:ss]

[[[[[YY]YY]MM]DD]hh]mm[.ss]

Unfortunately, the date still needs to be initialised by ‘settop’ before the date function will return a valid value.

You may also want to try:

compare:

ln -s /opt/bin/busybox /opt/bin/cmp

and

difference:

ln -s /opt/bin/busybox /opt/bin/diff

Any other command you may need, you can create a symlink for by using the same method outlined above.

Just enter

busybox

for a full list of the commands you already have

and

/opt/bin/busybox

for the commands that are available.

regards

raydon