-------------------------------
-=item cat
+=item cat
Usage: cat [file ...]
Usage: chgrp [OPTION]... GROUP FILE...
Change the group membership of each FILE to GROUP.
-
+
Options:
-R change files and directories recursively
-
+
Example:
$ ls -l /tmp/foo
Usage: chown [OPTION]... OWNER[.[GROUP] FILE...
Changes the owner and/or group of each FILE to OWNER and/or GROUP.
-
+
Options:
-R change files and directories recursively
Usage: gzip [OPTION]... FILE
Compress FILE with maximum compression.
-When FILE is '-', reads standard input. Implies -c.
+When FILE is '-', reads standard input. Implies B<-c>.
Options:
=item killall
-Usage: killall [-signal] process-name [process-name ...]
+Usage: killall [B<-signal>] process-name [process-name ...]
Send a signal (default is SIGTERM) to the specified process(es).
Options:
+
-l List all signal names and numbers.
Example:
=item loadacm
-FIXME
+Usage: loadacm
+
+Loads an acm from standard input.
+
+Example:
+
+ $ loadacm < /etc/i18n/acmname
-------------------------------
=item loadfont
-FIXME
+Usage: loadfont
+
+Loads a console font from standard input.
+
+Example:
+
+ $ loadfont < /etc/i18n/fontname
-------------------------------
=item loadkmap
-FIXME
+Usage: loadkmap
+
+Loads a binary keyboard translation table from standard input.
+
+Example:
+
+ $ loadkmap < /etc/i18n/lang-keymap
-------------------------------
Creates a named pipe (identical to 'mknod name p')
Options:
+
-m create the pipe using the specified mode (default a=rw)
-------------------------------
Create a special file (block, character, or pipe).
Options:
+
-m create the special file using the specified mode (default a=rw)
TYPEs include:
=item mt
-Usage: mt [-f device] opcode value
+Usage: mt [B<-f> device] opcode value
Control magnetic tape drive operation
=item sed
-Usage: sed [-n] -e script [file...]
+Usage: sed [B<-n>] B<-e> script [file...]
Allowed sed scripts come in the following form:
=item sh
-FIXME
+Usage: sh
+
+lash -- the BusyBox LAme SHell (command interpreter)
+
+This command does not yet have proper documentation.
+
+Use lash just as you would use any other shell. It properly handles pipes,
+redirects, job control, can be used as the shell for scripts (#!/bin/sh), and
+has a sufficient set of builtins to do what is needed. It does not (yet)
+support Bourne Shell syntax. If you need things like "if-then-else", "while",
+and such, use ash or bash. If you just need a very simple and extremely small
+shell, this will do the job.
-------------------------------
=item sort
-Usage: sort [-n] [-r] [FILE]...
+Usage: sort [B<-n>] [B<-r>] [FILE]...
Sorts lines of text in the specified files
=item tar
-Usage: tar -[cxtvO] [--exclude File] [-f tarFile] [FILE] ...
+Usage: tar -[cxtvO] [B<--exclude> File] [B<-f> tarFile] [FILE] ...
Create, extract, or list files from a tar file. Note that
this version of tar treats hard links as separate files.
=item touch
-Usage: touch [-c] file [file ...]
+Usage: touch [B<-c>] file [file ...]
Update the last-modified date on (or create) the selected file[s].
=item tr
-Usage: tr [-csu] string1 string2
- tr [-cu] -d string1
- tr [-cu] -s string1
- tr [-cu] -ds string1 string2
+Usage: tr [B<-cdsu>] string1 [string2]
Translate, squeeze, and/or delete characters from standard
input, writing to standard output.
=item tty
-FIXME
+Usage: tty
+
+Print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input.
+
+Options:
+
+ -s print nothing, only return an exit status
+
+Example:
+
+ $ tty
+ /dev/tty2
-------------------------------
=item umount
-FIXME
+Usage: umount [flags] filesystem|directory
+
+Flags:
+
+ -a: Unmount all file systems
+ -r: Try to remount devices as read-only if mount is busy
+ -f: Do not free loop device (if a loop device has been used)
+
+Example:
+
+ $ umount /dev/hdc1
-------------------------------
=item uname
-FIXME
+Usage: uname [OPTION]...
+
+Print certain system information. With no OPTION, same as B<-s>.
+
+Options:
+
+ -a print all information
+ -m the machine (hardware) type
+ -n print the machine's network node hostname
+ -r print the operating system release
+ -s print the operating system name
+ -p print the host processor type
+ -v print the operating system version
+
+Example:
+
+ $ uname -a
+ Linux debian 2.2.15pre13 #5 Tue Mar 14 16:03:50 MST 2000 i686 unknown
-------------------------------
=item uniq
-FIXME
+Usage: uniq [OPTION]... [INPUT [OUTPUT]]
+
+Discard all but one of successive identical lines from INPUT
+(or standard input), writing to OUTPUT (or standard output).
+
+Example:
+
+ $ echo -e "a\na\nb\nc\nc\na" | sort | uniq
+ a
+ b
+ c
-------------------------------
=item update
-FIXME
+Usage: update [options]
+
+Periodically flushes filesystem buffers.
+
+Options:
+
+ -S force use of sync(2) instead of flushing
+ -s SECS call sync this often (default 30)
+ -f SECS flush some buffers this often (default 5)
-------------------------------
=item uptime
-FIXME
+Usage: uptime
+
+Tells how long the system has been running since boot.
+
+Example:
+
+ $ uptime
+ 1:55pm up 2:30, load average: 0.09, 0.04, 0.00
-------------------------------
=item usleep
-FIXME
+Usage: usleep N
+
+Pauses for N microseconds.
+
+Example:
+
+ $ usleep 1000000
+ [pauses for 1 second]
-------------------------------
=item wc
-FIXME
+Usage: wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
+
+Print line, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if
+more than one FILE is specified. With no FILE, read standard input.
+
+Options:
+
+ -c print the byte counts
+ -l print the newline counts
+ -L print the length of the longest line
+ -w print the word counts
+
+Example:
+
+ $ wc /etc/passwd
+ 31 46 1365 /etc/passwd
-------------------------------
=item whoami
-FIXME
+Usage: whoami
+
+Prints the user name associated with the current effective user id.
+
+Example:
+
+ $ whoami
+ andersen
-------------------------------
=item yes
-FIXME
+Usage: yes [OPTION]... [STRING]...
+
+Repeatedly outputs a line with all specified STRING(s), or `y'.
-------------------------------
=item zcat
-FIXME
+This is essentially an alias for invoking "gunzip B<-c>", where
+it decompresses the file inquestion and send the output to stdout.
-------------------------------
=for html <br>
+John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
+
+=for html <br>
+
Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com>
=for html <br>
=cut
-# $Id: busybox.pod,v 1.10 2000/04/15 16:34:54 erik Exp $
+# $Id: busybox.pod,v 1.17 2000/04/19 03:59:10 erik Exp $