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Eric Andersen 3ec8ffb121 I forgot to add usage.h, so here it is, with a few extra cleanups.
Also update show_usage to handle the updated usage.h.  Again,
nearly all the work to get usage.h into shape was done by
Manuel Novoa III.
 -Erik
2001-02-14 21:46:30 +00:00
applets I forgot to add usage.h, so here it is, with a few extra cleanups. 2001-02-14 21:46:30 +00:00
archival This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
console-tools This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
coreutils This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
debian Bump rev to 0.50pre. 2001-02-14 07:55:19 +00:00
docs Fix typo. 2001-02-09 18:10:53 +00:00
editors This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
examples Bump rev to 0.50pre. 2001-02-14 07:55:19 +00:00
findutils This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
include I forgot to add usage.h, so here it is, with a few extra cleanups. 2001-02-14 21:46:30 +00:00
init This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
libbb More portable handling of loop header files, as done in util-linux 2000-09-21 02:04:51 +00:00
miscutils This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
modutils This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
networking This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
procps This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
scripts Script updates for better portability 2000-12-12 16:49:12 +00:00
shell This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
sysklogd This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
tests Apply a patch from Larry Doolittle to add "-all" and "-none" switches 2001-02-01 22:43:49 +00:00
util-linux This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
.cvsignore Ignore loop.h 2000-09-21 02:05:43 +00:00
.indent.pro First revision of the Busybox Style Guide and an accompanying .indent.pro 2000-07-24 22:36:06 +00:00
applets.h This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
ar.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
AUTHORS Changed email address to codepoet.org, updated list of applets / docs I 2001-01-04 22:21:13 +00:00
basename.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
busybox.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
busybox.h This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
busybox.mkll Cleanup patch from larry doolittle 2001-01-26 20:31:02 +00:00
busybox.sh Fix lower casing for weird locales. 2000-12-26 16:36:10 +00:00
busybox.spec Bump rev to 0.50pre. 2001-02-14 07:55:19 +00:00
cat.c Fix up copyright msgs. Bump version to 0.49 in preparation for 2001-01-27 09:33:39 +00:00
Changelog Commit Vladimir's latest version of stty.c. Nice work. 2001-02-14 18:47:33 +00:00
chmod_chown_chgrp.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
chroot.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
chvt.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
clear.c Fix up copyright msgs. Bump version to 0.49 in preparation for 2001-01-27 09:33:39 +00:00
cmdedit.c Apply a patch from Larry Doolittle to add "-all" and "-none" switches 2001-02-01 22:43:49 +00:00
cmdedit.h Update interface per what now exists... 2001-01-04 11:09:00 +00:00
cmp.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
Config.h Commit Vladimir's latest version of stty.c. Nice work. 2001-02-14 18:47:33 +00:00
Config.h.Hurd Re-worked the support for s///p, fixed a backref limit buglet, and cleaned up 2000-11-03 19:47:00 +00:00
cp_mv.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
cut.c Removed trailing \n from error_msg{,_and_die} messages. 2001-01-31 19:00:21 +00:00
date.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
dc.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
dd.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
deallocvt.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
df.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
dirname.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
dmesg.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
dos2unix.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
dpkg_deb.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
dpkg.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
du.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
dumpkmap.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
dutmp.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
echo.c Fix header file usage -- there were many unnecessary header files included in 2001-01-27 08:24:39 +00:00
expr.c Removed trailing \n from error_msg{,_and_die} messages. 2001-01-31 19:00:21 +00:00
fbset.c Removed trailing \n from error_msg{,_and_die} messages. 2001-01-31 19:00:21 +00:00
fdflush.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
find.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
free.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
freeramdisk.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
fsck_minix.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
getopt.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
grep.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
gunzip.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
gzip.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
halt.c Changed names of functions in utility.c and all affected files, to make 2000-12-07 19:56:48 +00:00
head.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
hostid.c Fix header file usage -- there were many unnecessary header files included in 2001-01-27 08:24:39 +00:00
hostname.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
id.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
ifconfig.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
init.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
insmod.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
install.sh Disabled debugging output 2000-07-28 19:34:02 +00:00
kill.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
lash.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
length.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
LICENSE Fix up copyright msgs. Bump version to 0.49 in preparation for 2001-01-27 09:33:39 +00:00
ln.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
loadacm.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
loadfont.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
loadkmap.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
logger.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
logname.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
ls.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
lsmod.c Apply a patch from Larry Doolittle to add "-all" and "-none" switches 2001-02-01 22:43:49 +00:00
makedevs.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
Makefile Bump rev to 0.50pre. 2001-02-14 07:55:19 +00:00
md5sum.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
messages.c Removed trailing \n from error_msg{,_and_die} messages. 2001-01-31 19:00:21 +00:00
mk_loop_h.sh More portable handling of loop header files, as done in util-linux 2000-09-21 02:04:51 +00:00
mkdir.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
mkfifo.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
mkfs_minix.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
mknod.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
mkswap.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
mktemp.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
more.c It seems I stupidly checked in a silly test I was making. 2001-02-02 15:15:36 +00:00
mount.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
mt.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
mtab.c Apply a patch from Larry Doolittle to add "-all" and "-none" switches 2001-02-01 22:43:49 +00:00
nc.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
nfsmount.c Applied patch from Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> to do better checking for 2001-02-01 19:51:13 +00:00
nfsmount.h Remove #ifdef __STDC__ junk. We don't do K&R round these parts, 2000-12-01 19:02:24 +00:00
nslookup.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
ping.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
pivot_root.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
poweroff.c Changed names of functions in utility.c and all affected files, to make 2000-12-07 19:56:48 +00:00
printf.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
ps.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
pwd.c Fix header file usage -- there were many unnecessary header files included in 2001-01-27 08:24:39 +00:00
rdate.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
readlink.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
README Fix up copyright msgs. Bump version to 0.49 in preparation for 2001-01-27 09:33:39 +00:00
real_loop.h More portable handling of loop header files, as done in util-linux 2000-09-21 02:04:51 +00:00
reboot.c Changed names of functions in utility.c and all affected files, to make 2000-12-07 19:56:48 +00:00
renice.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
reset.c Fix up copyright msgs. Bump version to 0.49 in preparation for 2001-01-27 09:33:39 +00:00
rm.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
rmdir.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
rmmod.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
route.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
rpmunpack.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
sed.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
setkeycodes.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
sh.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
sleep.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
sort.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
stty.c Commit Vladimir's latest version of stty.c. Nice work. 2001-02-14 18:47:33 +00:00
swaponoff.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
sync.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
syslogd.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
tail.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
tar.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
tee.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
telnet.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
test.c Removed trailing \n from error_msg{,_and_die} messages. 2001-01-31 19:00:21 +00:00
TODO Commit Vladimir's latest version of stty.c. Nice work. 2001-02-14 18:47:33 +00:00
touch.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
tr.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
true_false.c Fix up copyright msgs. Bump version to 0.49 in preparation for 2001-01-27 09:33:39 +00:00
tty.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
umount.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
uname.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
uniq.c Fix up copyright msgs. Bump version to 0.49 in preparation for 2001-01-27 09:33:39 +00:00
unix2dos.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
update.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
uptime.c Fix up copyright msgs. Bump version to 0.49 in preparation for 2001-01-27 09:33:39 +00:00
usage.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
usage.h I forgot to add usage.h, so here it is, with a few extra cleanups. 2001-02-14 21:46:30 +00:00
usleep.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
utility.c I forgot to add usage.h, so here it is, with a few extra cleanups. 2001-02-14 21:46:30 +00:00
uudecode.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
uuencode.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
watchdog.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
wc.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
wget.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
which.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
whoami.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00
xargs.c Fix wget error message and add (and use) chomp library function. 2001-02-01 16:49:30 +00:00
yes.c This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work 2001-02-14 21:23:06 +00:00

Please see the LICENSE file for copyright information.
    
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 fileutils, shellutils, findutils, textutils, grep, gzip,
tar, etc. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or
embedded system. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than
their full featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide
the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts.

BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind.
It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or
features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedded
systems. To create a working system, just add /dev, a kernel, and an editor,
such as nano, e3, or elvis-tiny.  For a really minimal system, you can even use
the busybox shell (not Bourne compatible, but very small and quite usable).

BusyBox was originally written to support the Debian Rescue/Install disks, but
it also makes an excellent environment for any small or embedded system.

As of version 0.20 there is now a version number. : ) Also as of version 0.20,
BusyBox is now modularized to easily allow you to build only the components you
need, thereby reducing binary size. To turn off unwanted BusyBox components,
simply edit the file "Config.h" and comment out the components you do not need
using C++ style (//) comments.

After the build is complete, a busybox.links file is generated.  This is
used by 'make install' to create symlinks to the busybox binary for all
compiled in functions.  By default, 'make install' will place the symlink
forest into `pwd`/_install unless you have defined the PREFIX environment
variable (i.e., 'make PREFIX=/tmp/foo install')

----------------
    
Supported architectures:

   Busybox in general will build on any architecture supported by gcc.  It has
   a few specialized features added for __sparc__ and __alpha__.  insmod
   functionality is currently limited to x86, ARM, and SH3/4.

Supported libcs:

   glibc-2.0.x, glibc-2.1.x, Linux-libc5, uClibc.  People are looking at
   newlib and diet-libc, but consider them unsupported, untested, or worse.

Supported kernels:

   Full functionality requires Linux 2.0.x, 2.2.x, or 2.4.x.  A large fraction
   of the code should run on just about anything.

----------------

Getting help:

When you find you need help, you can check out the BusyBox mailing list
archives at http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/ or even join
the mailing list if you are interested.

----------------

Bugs:

If you find bugs, please submit a bug report.  Full instructions on how to
report a bug are found at http://bugs.lineo.com/Reporting.html.

For the impatient: To submit a bug, simply send an email describing the problem
to submit@bugs.lineo.com.  Bug reports should look something like this:

    To: submit@bugs.lineo.com
    From: diligent@testing.linux.org
    Subject: /bin/true doesn't work

    Package: busybox
    Version: 0.48

    When I invoke '/bin/true' it doesn't work.  I expected it to return 
    a "0" but it returned a "1" instead.  Here is the transcript:
	$ /bin/true ; echo $?
	1
    With GNU /bin/true, I get the following output:
	$ /bin/true ; echo $?
	0
    I am using Debian 2.2r2, kernel version 2.2.18, and the latest
    uClibc from CVS.  Thanks for the wonderful program!
	-Diligent

Note the careful description and use of examples showing not only what BusyBox
does, but also a counter example showing what an equivalent GNU app does.  Bug
reports lacking such detail may take a _long_ time to be fixed...  Thanks for
understanding.

----------------

FTP:

Source for the latest released version can always be downloaded from 
    ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox. 

----------------

CVS:

BusyBox now has its own publicly browsable CVS tree at:
    http://opensource.lineo.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/

Anonymous CVS access is available.  For instructions, check out:
    http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_anon.html

For those that are actively contributing there is even CVS write access:
    http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_write.html

----------------

Please feed suggestions, bug reports, insults, and bribes back to:
	Erik Andersen 
	<andersen@lineo.com>
	<andersee@debian.org>

<blatant plug>
Many thanks to go to Lineo for paying me to work on busybox. 
</blatant plug>