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=head1 NAME
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BusyBox - The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
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=head1 SYNTAX
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BusyBox <function> [arguments...] # or
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<function> [arguments...] # if symlinked
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single
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small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities
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you usually find in fileutils, shellutils, findutils, textutils, grep, gzip,
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tar, etc. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small
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or embedded system. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than
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their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide
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the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts.
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BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind.
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It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or
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features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedded
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systems. To create a working system, just add a kernel, a shell (such as ash),
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and an editor (such as elvis-tiny or ae).
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=head1 USAGE
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When you create a link to BusyBox for the function you wish to use, when BusyBox
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is called using that link it will behave as if the command itself has been invoked.
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For example, entering
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ln -s ./BusyBox ls
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./ls
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will cause BusyBox to behave as 'ls' (if the 'ls' command has been compiled
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into BusyBox).
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You can also invoke BusyBox by issuing the command as an argument on the
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command line. For example, entering
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./BusyBox ls
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will also cause BusyBox to behave as 'ls'.
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=head1 COMMON OPTIONS
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Most BusyBox commands support the B<-h> option to provide a
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terse runtime description of their behavior.
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=head1 COMMANDS
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Currently defined functions include:
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addgroup, adduser, adjtimex, ar, arping, ash, awk, basename,
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bunzip2, busybox, bzcat, cal, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot,
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chvt, clear, cmp, cp, cpio, crond, crontab, cut, date, dc, dd,
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deallocvt, delgroup, deluser, df, dirname, dmesg, dos2unix, dpkg,
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dpkg-deb, du, dumpkmap, dumpleases, dutmp, echo, egrep, env, expr,
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false, fbset, fdflush, fdformat, fgrep, find, fold, free, freeramdisk,
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fsck.minix, ftpget, ftpput, getopt, getty, grep, gunzip, gzip,
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halt, head, hexdump, hostid, hostname, httpd, hush, hwclock, id,
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ifconfig, ifdown, ifup, inetd, init, insmod, ip, ipcalc, iplink,
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iproute, iptunnel, kill, killall, klogd, lash, length, linuxrc,
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ln, loadacm, loadfont, loadkmap, logger, login, logname, logread,
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losetup, ls, lsmod, makedevs, md5sum, mesg, minit, mkdir, mkfifo,
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mkfs.minix, mknod, mkswap, mktemp, modprobe, more, mount, msh,
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msvc, mt, mv, nameif, nc, netstat, nslookup, od, openvt, passwd,
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patch, pidfilehack, pidof, ping, ping6, pivot_root, poweroff,
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printf, ps, pwd, rdate, readlink, realpath, reboot, renice, reset,
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rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, rpm, rpm2cpio, run-parts, sed, setkeycodes,
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sha1sum, sleep, sort, start-stop-daemon, strings, stty, su, sulogin,
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swapoff, swapon, sync, syslogd, tail, tar, tee, telnet, telnetd,
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test, tftp, time, top, touch, tr, traceroute, true, tty, udhcpc,
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udhcpd, umount, uname, uncompress, uniq, unix2dos, unzip, update,
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uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode, vconfig, vi, vlock, watch,
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watchdog, wc, wget, which, who, whoami, xargs, yes, zcat, [
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=over 4
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