jmxp69

I cobbled all of this together from various places on the web, but I think the credit for the binaries goes to Paul @ MoDaCo.

Nandroid before going any further!

Files you'll need:

QuickSSHD (Download this from the Market. $1.50). I'm just going to assume if you're still reading, you know what this is for and how to use it. It's braindead simple. I think dropbear can be installed and configured manually, but for the $1.50...meh.

The rest are zipped up here: terminfo.zip, nano, bash, profile**

Unzip bashnano.zip onto your SDCard.

From adb shell:

Install Terminfo:
cp -r /sdcard/terminfo /system/etc

Setup Bash:
cp /sdcard/bash /system/bin/bash_new
mv /system/bin/sh /system/bin/sh.old
ln -s /system/bin/bash_new /system/bin/sh
cp /sdcard/profile /etc

Setup Nano:
cp /sdcard/nano /system/bin


I'm not sure if this setup will have any impact on sh scripts being used in the various ROMs, so use this at your own risk.

This will give you full bash over adb, but I haven't figured out where profile goes to add terminal/color et al. for adb.

Anyway, hope y'all find it useful.

**profile reflects a few personal choices for aliases and colors, but you can edit to your personal taste.

__________________
EVO 4g CM6 RC1/cm6-snap!
The EVO is GIMPED by HTC - Why must XDA devs do for HTC what HTC should have done for you?

Sepero

Very awesome! I only wish this was in apk package form lol
But perhaps that isn't possible because of permissions.


I didn't need QuickSSHD. Any regular terminal should work, and many are $0 free on the market. I recommend "Terminal Emulator" or "ConnectBot".

Also, a few steps that appear to be missing:
1. Before attempting to write to /system/bin, you need to remount it as writable
./adb remount (through USB)
OR
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock1 /system (as root on terminal)
2. chmod 755 /system/bin/bash_new (make it executable)
3. chmod 755 /system/bin/nano (make it executable)


These programs work on my rooted motorola cliq, with a few exceptions. I actually had to store the files (bash and nano) in /data/ (mtdblock2), and symlink to them from /system/bin, because there wasn't enough free space on the root partition.

My steps were similar to this:
1. Through USB run ./adb remount
2. Login to android terminal as root (Terminal Emulator)
3. Run these commands
cp /sdcard/bashnano/profile /etc
cp /sdcard/bashnano/bash /data
cp /sdcard/bashnano/nano /data
chmod 755 /data/bash
chmod 755 /data/nano
cd /system/bin/
mv sh sh.old
ln -s /data/bash sh
ln -s /data/bash bash
ln -s /data/nano nano


Using BASH special keys:
Control (Ctrl) key = Wheel button
Escape key (esc) = Ctrl + 1 + 2 (comes in handy big time if using vi)
Go to beginning of line = Ctrl +a
Go to end of line = Ctrl + e
Tab completion = Ctrl + i
The commandline redirection ">" = Shift + Alt + l
The commandline redirection "<" = Shift + Alt + k
The pipe character "|" = Shift + Alt + a
Cut = Ctrl + w
Paste = Ctrl + y
Reverse search previous commands = Ctrl + r
Break reverse search = Ctrl + g
Reverse slash "\" = Ctrl + Shift + n
Carrot key "^" = Ctrl + Shift + j

Anyone Please write in if you know how to input any other special characters, such as "~" or "[" or "]".


I recommend Remounting your /system read-write and downloading BUSYBOX from the market Before installing bashnano. Backup your system.

Last edited by Sepero; October 14th, 2010 at 08:58 AM. Reason: m

cabbie

yea...i feel dumb. what is the objective of all this?

__________________
NOOB guide: What ROOTING is in laymans terms
Tablet: B&N NookColor
Phone Carrier: Sprint ~~ Phone: HTC EVO 4G ~~ Android: 2.2 (Froyo) ~~ Software #: 3.70.651.1 ~~ ROM: FreshEvo 3.5.0.1 ~~ Kernel: One of the various SBC ones ~~ Baseband: 2.15.00.11.19 ~~ PRI 1.90_003 ~~ PRL: 60672

Sepero

Bash shell does not appear to be recognizing the file /etc/profile

Not 100% sure

Sepero

The objective is to install the Bash shell and Nano text editor. These are for use in the commandline/terminal.

Hazy

Exactly what is this gonna let us do on/to our phones?

Sepero

ROOT?
I just realized that jmxp69 did not state that the phone needs to be rooted before you can install these programs. I'm pretty sure that your phone must be ROOTED first.

I use Ubuntu Linux as my desktop operating system. On my desktop, I use the bash shell almost everyday. With the Bash shell, I can perform operations that are impossible with graphical programs (such as batch operations, appending to files, changing owners/groups/permissions, remounting/reformating file system, automated/timed/looped scripts, much more).

Nano is a popular text editor that runs in the terminal. It is useful for simply editing text files or creating bash scripts.

laredo7mm

Nothing for the every day user.

It is a different story if you are a Dev or are familiar with command line stuff.

StuartRothrock

THANKS FOR THE NICE INFO!!

I didnt rename bash
I put profile in /system/etc
created /system/etc/shells with /system/bin/bash
and sshd uses bash automatically

wasnt too crazy renaming /system/bin/sh...

Sepero

Uploading another copy of the zip file incase the original server ever goes down.

Attached Files

bashnano.zip (1.52 MB, 13 views)

Sepero

Also there is a free editor and screen keyboard on the market named "touchqode" that is very useful for typing in programming/scripting code and special characters. java php perl python c++ etc

It supports ftp, file syncing, syntax highlighting and more.

market://details?id=com.touchqode.editor
http://www.touchqode.com