What is linux busybox?



  • Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox

    It provides a core command set to linux, in one executable file. It is not a VM, but designed to be used for debugging purposes while booting up linux, the commands busybox provides are available as part of a recovery boot up.

    You can check this by running the following command: Produces a list of all the commands within busybox.

    $ busybox --list-full
    bin/[
    bin/[[
    sbin/acpid
    sbin/adjtimex
    usr/bin/ar
    sbin/arp
    usr/sbin/arping
    bin/ash
    usr/bin/awk
    ...
    ...
    ...
    

    You can verify the commands by using them via the busybox binary.

    $ busybox uptime
     14:18:15 up 14:30,  1 users,  load average: 0.14, 0.22, 0.20
    

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