BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable.
BusyBox (“the Swiss Army knife of embedded Linux”) combines common command-line utilities into a single executable. It includes a shell, file utilities such as ls
and cp
, text utilities such as grep
and sed
, basic system utilities such as init
and syslogd
, system administration utilities such as fsck
and sysctl
, networking utilities such as ping
and ifconfig
, and more. It is intended for small Linux systems such as boot floppies and embedded devices.
External links
- BusyBox FAQ
- BusyBox command help (note that some commands and options are optional and may not be present in your binary)