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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, awk, basename, busybox, cat, chgrp,
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chmod, chown, chroot, chvt, clear, cmp, cp, cpio, crond, crontab, cut,
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date, dc, dd, deallocvt, deluser, df, dirname, dmesg, dos2unix, dpkg,
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dpkg-deb, du, dumpkmap, dutmp, echo, expr, false, fbset, fdflush, find,
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free, freeramdisk, fsck.minix, getopt, getty, grep, gunzip, gzip, halt,
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head, hostid, hostname, id, ifconfig, init, insmod, kill, killall, klogd,
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length, ln, loadacm, loadfont, loadkmap, logger, logname, ls, lsmod,
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makedevs, md5sum, mkdir, mkfifo, mkfs.minix, mknod, mkswap, mktemp, more,
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mount, mt, mv, nc, netstat, nslookup, ping, pivot_root, poweroff, printf,
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ps, pwd, rdate, readlink, reboot, renice, reset, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route,
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rpm2cpio, sed, setkeycodes, sh, sleep, sort, stty, swapoff, swapon, sync,
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syslogd, tail, tar, tee, telnet, telnetd, test, tftp, time, top, touch, tr,
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true, tty, umount, uname, uniq, unix2dos, update, uptime, usleep, uudecode,
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uuencode, watchdog, wc, wget, which, whoami, xargs, yes, zcat, [
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=over 4
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