[Toybox] toybox shell: alias support

Tue Feb 10 23:16:56 PST 2026

As [hinted by Rob](https://mstdn.jp/@landley/116043106074437957) I'd 
like to add some test cases for aiias support in toybox's shell.

- I mostly truncated [my public .bash_aliases 
file](https://github.com/kkarhan/misc-scripts/blob/master/bash/.bash_aliases), 
ditching external tools like enc and rewriting it to use wget instead of 
curl (because a wget implementation is part of toybox).

I did test the commands to be working on a regular system [Ubuntu 
22.04.5 LTS @ amd64] , but I don't see why these shouldn't work in 
toybox (mkroot) either as I didn't use anything weirdly bash-specific.

- I hope this helps in implementing said functionality and testing it. 
If desired I could add some more options but I don't think that's 
strictly necessary. Aliases are merely meant as userspace (if not 
user-specific) shortcuts in a shell.

-  Kev
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#	toybox shell aliase
##	This is a sample submission for development of alias support in toybox's shell (toysh).
###	It is based upon an existing .bash_aliases file:
###	See https://github.com/kkarhan/misc-scripts/blob/master/bash/.bash_aliases for that.

##	Minor shortcuts to improve speed
alias cls='clear'
alias dir='ls -ahl'
function ding() { echo -ne '\007'; }
###	Create a Beep [will only make a system beep if output is redirected to a local or unused console]
alias unixtime='date +%s'
###	Output Unixtime

##   Connectivity Diagnostics
function isup() { ping -a -b -c 1 -D "$@"; }
###	Single Ping attempt to a specific host which has to be specified i.e. "isup toybox.net"
###	This is done to see if a host "is up"...
alias pubip='wget -qO-  https://wtfismyip.com/text'
###	find public IP adress
###	NOTE:	Lack of connectivity will result in a 404 error!
###	alternative Service:	ipinfo.io/ip
###	see:	https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14594151/methods-to-detect-public-ip-address-in-bash/14594304#14594304
####	Originally used curl, rewritten to use wget with identical results
####	see:	https://superuser.com/questions/321240/how-do-you-redirect-wget-response-to-standard-out/977047#977047

##	Post something to a server (i.e. ntfy.sh):
function notify() { wget --method=PUT --body-data="$2" ntfy.sh/$1 ; }
###	Sends message ""$2" to ntfy.sh/$1
###	See:	https://docs.ntfy.sh/publish
####	Originally used curl, but was rewritten to use wget PUT method
####	See:	https://superuser.com/questions/130009/how-can-i-do-a-http-put-with-wget/828631#828631

##	Random Password Generator Functions
###	random UUID
alias uuid='cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid'
###	64 digits
alias pw64='</dev/urandom tr -dc '0123456789AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz@!?~+#-_' | head -c64; echo;'
###	Random 8 digit TAN
alias rtan='< /dev/urandom tr -dc 0-9 | head -c${1:-8};echo;'
###	see:	https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/30184/10-ways-to-generate-a-random-password-from-the-command-line/
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