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  • I just discovered busybox, for Windows..

    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Maurice Kinal on Fri Sep 13 22:48:00 2024
    Hello Maurice!

    Given the version of busybox, that is either an aliased ash or hush
    shell. My guess is ash but the busybox config should tell the tale.

    A closer inspection reveals that busybox includes several shell
    choices:

    ash
    bash
    lash
    sh

    echo $SHELL in all of them reports /bin/sh


    Apparently google bash scripts default to [[ for all their tests. I just don't recall the reason but I am obviously getting too old for this business. :::sigh:::

    I was relying on separate GNUWin32 programs before. At one time
    I needed a decent split command. I eventually found it in the
    GNUWin32 collection, but the maximum split it supported was
    2GB. Busybox split doesn't seem to have that limitation.

    --
    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.58
    * Origin: (2:221/1.58)
  • From Maurice Kinal@2:280/464.113 to August Abolins on Sun Sep 15 01:40:13 2024
    Hej August!

    I was relying on separate GNUWin32 programs before.

    In linux those are all seperate supplied by coreutils, util-linux and other such packages. I prefer them being seperate.

    but the maximum split it supported was 2GB. Busybox split
    doesn't seem to have that limitation.

    No suprise here. Near as I can tell coreutils' split is only limited by free disk size and free memory.

    Het leven is goed,
    Maurice

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    --- GNU bash, version 5.2.32(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
    * Origin: Little Mikey's EuroPoint @ (2:280/464.113)