BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single
small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the
- utilities you usually find in bzip2, coreutils, e2fsprogs, file, findutils,
- gawk, grep, inetutils, less, modutils, net-tools, procps, sed, shadow,
- sysklogd, sysvinit, tar, util-linux, and vim. The utilities in BusyBox
- often have fewer options than their full-featured cousins; however, the
- options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave
- very much like their larger counterparts.
+ utilities you usually find in bzip2, coreutils, dhcp, diffutils, e2fsprogs,
+ file, findutils, gawk, grep, inetutils, less, modutils, net-tools, procps,
+ sed, shadow, sysklogd, sysvinit, tar, util-linux, and vim. The utilities
+ in BusyBox often have fewer options than their full-featured cousins;
+ however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality
+ and behave very much like their larger counterparts.
BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in
mind, both to produce small binaries and to reduce run-time memory usage.
The behavior of busybox is determined by the name it's called under: as
"cp" it behaves like cp, as "sed" it behaves like sed, and so on. Called
as "busybox" it takes the second argument as the name of the applet to
- run (I.E. "./busybox ls -l /proc").
+ run (I.E. "./busybox ls -l /proc").
The "standalone shell" mode is an easy way to try out busybox; this is a
command shell that calls the builtin applets without needing them to be
http://busybox.net/downloads/
You can browse the up to the minute source code and change history online.
- The "stable" series is at:
-
- http://www.busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/busybox_1_00_stable/busybox/
-
- And the development series is at:
http://www.busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/busybox/
Please feed suggestions, bug reports, insults, and bribes back to the busybox
maintainer:
- Erik Andersen
- <andersen@codepoet.org>
+ Rob Landley
+ <rob@landley.net>