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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Subject: Re: Replace 'sash' with 'busybox' as our static rescue shell
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:26:01 -0400
On Friday 22 April 2005 02:08 pm, Stelian Ionescu wrote:
> file can sometimes be very useful, for instance if I want to know the
> major/minor numbers of a device. the same about stat

ok ... well `ls -l` can give you the same exact info:
$ ls -l /dev/null 
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 1, 3 Apr 22 15:00 /dev/null

and sash doesnt implement 'stat' ... so really file is not necessary for this 
reason

i can implement stat in busybox, shouldnt be hard
-mike
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