[BusyBox] [PATCH] macadddr command

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 21 July 2005 17:04, Sam Robb wrote:

> Having monitored the mailing list for a couple of months, I've
> seen a couple of exchanges like this - a suggestion for the
> inclusion of a utility, and a response indicating an alternate
> way to accomplish the same end via existing utilities and a
> script.
>
> Does anyone think that it would be useful to collect such things
> into a separate package that can be included in an RFS if needed/
> desired?  Or does such a package already exist?

Well, we now have a tinyutils.html page on the web page, so yeah this sounds 
like a good thing to collect.  Probably in the busybox tarball, even.  (We've 
got scripts and examples subdirectories already, although they already have 
other stuff in them...)

This particular one, however strikes me as "too obvious for words".  (I had a 
script chopping the mac address out of ifconfig five years ago.  I think I 
was using awk to do it, even.  And I don't _know_ awk, I just stumbled around 
the man page a bit...)

> -Samrobb

Rob