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/usr/bin/busybox

swiss-army knife for embedded systems

From busybox 1.38.0-r3 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running busybox --help (exit 0). permalink

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BusyBox v1.38.0 (2026-10-09 04:58:57 UTC) multi-call binary.
BusyBox is copyrighted by many authors between 1998-2015.
Licensed under GPLv2. See source distribution for detailed
copyright notices.

Usage: busybox [function [arguments]...]
   or: busybox --list[-full]
   or: busybox --install [-s] [DIR]
   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:
	[, [[, add-shell, addgroup, adduser, adjtimex, arch, arping, ash, awk, base64, basename,
	bbconfig, bc, beep, bunzip2, bzcat, bzip2, cal, cat, chattr, chgrp, chmod, chown, chpasswd,
	chroot, chrt, cksum, clear, cmp, comm, cp, cpio, cryptpw, cut, date, dc, dd, delgroup,
	deluser, df, diff, dirname, dmesg, dnsdomainname, dos2unix, du, echo, ed, egrep, env,
	expand, expr, factor, fallocate, false, fgrep, find, findfs, flock, fold, free, fsync,
	fuser, getfattr, getopt, getty, grep, groups, gunzip, gzip, hd, head, hexdump, hostid,
	hostname, id, inotifyd, install, ionice, iostat, ipcrm, ipcs, kill, killall, killall5,
	less, link, linux32, linux64, ln, logger, login, ls, lsattr, lsblk, lsof, lzcat, lzma,
	lzop, lzopcat, md5sum, microcom, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mkpasswd, mktemp, more, mountpoint,
	mpstat, mv, netstat, nice, nl, nmeter, nohup, nologin, nproc, nsenter, od, passwd, paste,
	pgrep, pidof, ping, ping6, pipe_progress, pivot_root, pkill, pmap, printenv, printf, ps,
	pstree, pwd, pwdx, rdev, readahead, readlink, realpath, remove-shell, renice, reset,
	resize, rev, rm, rmdir, run-parts, sed, seq, setpriv, setserial, setsid, sh, sha1sum,
	sha256sum, sha384sum, sha3sum, sha512sum, shred, shuf, sleep, sort, split, stat, strings,
	stty, su, sum, sync, sysctl, tac, tail, tar, tee, test, time, timeout, top, touch, tr,
	traceroute, traceroute6, tree, true, truncate, tsort, tty, ttysize, tunctl, uname,
	unexpand, uniq, unix2dos, unlink, unlzma, unlzop, unxz, unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode,
	uuencode, uuidgen, vconfig, vi, vlock, vmstat, watch, wc, which, who, whoami, xargs, xxd,
	xzcat, yes, zcat

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.