Rob Sullivan writes: Here's a patch to autogenerate the list of applets in the Busybox documentation

docs/autodocifier.pl

@@ -150,7 +150,21 @@ foreach (@ARGV) {
 # generate structured documentation
 
 my $generator = \&pod_for_usage;
-foreach my $applet (sort keys %docs) {
+
+my @names = sort keys %docs;
+print "\t[, [[, ";
+for (my $i = 0; $i < $#names; $i++) {
+	if (($i + 2) % 8 == 0) {
+		print "\n\t";
+	}
+	print "$names[$i], ";
+}
+print $names[-1];
+
+print "\n\n=head1 COMMAND DESCRIPTIONS\n";
+print "\n=over 4\n\n";
+
+foreach my $applet (@names) {
 	print $generator->($applet, $docs{$applet});
 }
 

docs/busybox_header.pod

@@ -80,31 +80,3 @@ been enabled, more detailed usage information will also be available.
 
 Currently defined functions include:
 
-	addgroup, adduser, adjtimex, ar, arping, ash, awk, basename, bunzip2,
-	busybox, bzcat, cal, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, chvt, clear, cmp,
-	cp, cpio, crond, crontab, cut, date, dc, dd, deallocvt, delgroup, deluser,
-	devfsd, df, dirname, dmesg, dos2unix, dpkg, dpkg-deb, du, dumpkmap,
-	dumpleases, echo, egrep, env, expr, false, fbset, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk,
-	fgrep, find, fold, free, freeramdisk, fsck.minix, ftpget, ftpput, getopt,
-	getty, grep, gunzip, gzip, halt, hdparm, head, hexdump, hostid, hostname,
-	httpd, hush, hwclock, id, ifconfig, ifdown, ifup, inetd, init, insmod,
-	install, ip, ipaddr, ipcalc, ipcrm, ipcs, iplink, iproute, iptunnel, kill, 
-	killall, klogd, lash, last, length, linuxrc, ln, loadfont, loadkmap, 
-	logger, login, logname, logread, losetup, ls, lsmod, makedevs, md5sum, 
-	mesg, mkdir, mkfifo, mkfs.minix, mknod, mkswap, mktemp, modprobe, more, 
-	mount, msh, mt, mv, nameif, nc, netstat, nslookup, od, openvt, passwd, 
-	patch, pidof, ping, ping6, pipe_progress, pivot_root, poweroff, printf, ps,
-	pwd, rdate, readlink, realpath, reboot, renice, reset, rm, rmdir, rmmod, 
-	route, rpm, rpm2cpio, run-parts, rx, sed, seq, setkeycodes, sha1sum, sleep,
-	sort, start-stop-daemon, strings, stty, su, sulogin, swapoff, swapon, sync,
-	sysctl, syslogd, tail, tar, tee, telnet, telnetd, test, tftp, time, top,
-	touch, tr, traceroute, true, tty, udhcpc, udhcpd, umount, uname,
-	uncompress, uniq, unix2dos, unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode,
-	vconfig, vi, vlock, watch, watchdog, wc, wget, which, who, whoami, xargs,
-	yes, zcat
-
-=head1 COMMAND DESCRIPTIONS
-
-=over 4
-
-