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 build automatically generates a file "busybox.links", which is used by
'make install' to create symlinks to the BusyBox binary for all compiled in
- commands. This uses the PREFIX environment variable to specify where to
- install, and installs hardlinks or symlinks depending on the configuration
- preferences. (You can also manually run the install script at
- "applets/install.sh").
+ commands. This uses the CONFIG_PREFIX environment variable to specify
+ where to install, and installs hardlinks or symlinks depending
+ on the configuration preferences. (You can also manually run
+ the install script at "applets/install.sh").
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Please feed suggestions, bug reports, insults, and bribes back to the busybox
maintainer:
- Rob Landley
- <rob@landley.net>
+ Denis Vlasenko
+ <vda.linux@googlemail.com>