Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

[Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com>]

Bogo Mipps wrote:
> Yes, it's up-to-date and busybox is installed.  Never had the
> occasion to use it, but this could be the time.

Yes!  :)  What's the fun in taking binaries from others when you 
have busybox aboard, and it is there exactly for this purpose.

If you don't like trial and error, first make the link for cat:

  busybox ln -s busybox /bin/cat

Then cut and paste the previously given list of /bin/* to a file 
named 'list', and then make all the links in one go:

  cat list | while read name; do busybox ln -s busybox $name; done

And then emerge coreutils.  Much more interesting.

Benno
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