script writers: what programs _don't_ need to be explicitly called?

[cmkelley]

I know I'm kinda late to the table on this, but I'm going through scribe with sed to directly call most of the busybox commands. There are some I've not bothered to though, I'm curious what the other script writers think.

I've (tried to) explicitly call out everything except [, true, false, printf, less, and echo. Mostly for aesthetic reasons, lol (printf appears ~266 times, and /usr/bin/[ just LOOKS weird); or in the case of less, because I don't want to have to specially modify my copy to explicitly use the entware version, and I have (understanding the consequences) left the /opt directories at the beginning of my path.

 

[dave14305]

An alternative could be to set the path at the top of the script.

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:$PATH

 

[cmkelley]

An alternative could be to set the path at the top of the script.

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:$PATH

Oh, sure, point out the incredibly obvious and easy way to do it AFTER I've sed'ed my way through scribe.

 

[dave14305]

Oh, sure, point out the incredibly obvious and easy way to do it AFTER I've sed'ed my way through scribe.

Best to be explicit.

 

[cmkelley]

Best to be explicit.

Nice save, Dave, nice save.