Questions tagged [mksh]
MirBSD Korn shell, or mksh, is a Free command interpreter (shell) intended for both interactive and shell script use. On Android 4 and newer, Android-x86 2.2 and newer, and some other variants, mksh is the system shell; older systems used ash, some older aftermarket firmwares used busybox sh. Please only add the mksh tag if the question relates to mksh.
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Difference between adb shell [command] and interactive adb shell
I am wondering if the interactive shell adb shell runs in a different context then when invoking a command via adb shell [command]?
The background to this question is, that I am running dinit on an ...
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How to use multibyte file names in adb shell?
I have a Galaxy S6 running Android 7.0:
zeroflte:/ $ getprop ro.build.version.release
7.0
There exists a file which uses the Unicode codepoint U+1F308 (RAINBOW) in its ...
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Update mksh to latest version
Android ships with mksh as shell, how can I upgrade to latest version (now R57, mine still on R43)?
Official site https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm offers to compile from source, anyone building ready ...
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Lengthy sleep command not working in script
I've written a su.d script to periodically (every 4 hours) back up data from an app using a looped sleep command:
#!/system/bin/sh
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# Wait for boot to complete
until [ "$(getprop sys....
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How to Check if Script is run once device is booted?
I have a script I need to run once, and only once the phone is booted.
I have attempted init.qcom.post_boot.sh, init.sec.boot.sh, debuggerd, and finally mkshrc
While my script ran with debuggerd, I ...
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How to write Android shell history to file?
Using Terminal Emulator for Android, is there a way to enable a persistent command history?
So far, I've tried the following:
Initial command of export HISTFILE=$HOME/.mksh_history
User mksh profile ...
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Shell .profile or /etc/profile for old android 2.3.3
Just rooted my old phone with Android 2.3.3 and I would like to define some aliases for each shell I start (with adb or terminal app). I found this question where one answer says that /etc/profile (=/...
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Work-around for process substitution in mksh
An extremely useful feature of Bash, known as process substitution, is missing in the Android shell, mksh. This is highly unfortunate as it prevent you from doing things like:
diff <(sort list1) &...
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Can I update the adb shell's environment variables?
I wanted to update the PATH environment variable permanently in the adb shell. I guessed the shell was mksh for I've found /system/bin/sh pointing to /system/bin/mksh. Then I tried
Making a new file /...
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unexpected root request for mksh when turning wifi on or off
Since today, I see the following root warning when turning wifi on or off:
Superuser Anfrage / Superuser request: mksh (1000)
Angeforderter Benutzer / Requested User: ROOT (0)
Befehl / Command: ip ...
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