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BusyBox

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on April 11, 2008 at 1:37:37 pm

busybox

Version: 1.10

Status: Done

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Busybox is the swiss army coat hanger of embedded linux and a very powerful tool. It can be compiled to contain any of a long list of standard GNU programs. When invoked, it examines the command used and responds as if it was that command. Eg:

/bin/busybox tar xzf somefile.tar.gz

This will cause busybox to act just like GNU tar and uncompress the specified file. This is why it is called a Multi call binary, it can be called by many names and takes on the role of whatever you call it. Normally, there are loads of symlinks to the main BusyBox binary so you just use the command as normal and BusyBox is invoked to do the job.

The busybox present in the MG-35 is quite simplified and it only knows the commands needed to perform the bootstrapping required to get the main file system mounted. However, it's pretty easy to build a new BusyBox with loads of nice features and use this instead.

See here for the main BusyBox web site.