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Chapter 11. > BusyBox Operation
11.3. BusyBox Operation
When you build BusyBox, you end up with a binary called, you guessed it, busybox. BusyBox can be invoked from the binary name itself, but it is more usually launched via a symlink. When BusyBox is invoked without command-line parameters, it produces a list of the functions that were enabled via the configuration. Listing 11-3 shows such an output (it has been formatted slightly to fit the page width).
Listing 11-3. BusyBox Usage
root@coyote # ./busybox
BusyBox v1.01 (2005.12.03-18:00+0000) multi-call binary
Usage: busybox [function] [arguments]...
or: [function] [arguments]...
BusyBox is a multi-call binary that combines many common Unix
utilities into a single executable. Most people will create a
link to busybox for each function they wish to use and BusyBox
will act like whatever it was invoked as!
Currently defined functions:
[, ash, basename, bunzip2, busybox, bzcat, cat, chgrp, chmod,
chown, chroot, chvt, clear, cmp, cp, cut, date, dd, deallocvt,
df, dirname, dmesg, du, echo, egrep, env, expr, false, fgrep,
find, free, grep, gunzip, gzip, halt, head, hexdump, hostname,
id, ifconfig, init, install, kill, killall, klogd, linuxrc, ln,
logger, ls, mkdir, mknod, mktemp, more, mount, mv, openvt, pidof,
ping, pivot_root, poweroff, ps, pwd, readlink, reboot, reset,
rm, rmdir, route, sed, sh, sleep, sort, strings, swapoff, swapon,
sync, syslogd, tail, tar, tee, test, time, touch, tr, true, tty,
umount, uname, uniq, unzip, uptime, usleep, vi, wc, wget, which,
whoami, xargs, yes, zcat
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