/busybox

BusyBox for Android

Primary LanguageJavaGNU Lesser General Public License v3.0LGPL-3.0

BusyBox

Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Anton Skshidlevsky, GPLv3

This application is an BusyBox installer for Android.

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system.

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Latest BusyBox v1.27.2, supported 357 applets:

[, [[, acpid, adjtimex, ar, arp, ash, awk, base64, basename, bbconfig,
beep, blkdiscard, blkid, blockdev, bootchartd, brctl, bunzip2, bzcat,
bzip2, cal, cat, chat, chattr, chgrp, chmod, chown, chpst, chroot,
chrt, chvt, cksum, clear, cmp, comm, conspy, cp, cpio, crond, crontab,
cryptpw, cttyhack, cut, date, dc, dd, deallocvt, depmod, devfsd,
devmem, df, diff, dirname, dmesg, dnsd, dnsdomainname, dos2unix, dpkg,
dpkg-deb, du, dumpkmap, echo, ed, egrep, eject, env, envdir, envuidgid,
ether-wake, expand, expr, factor, fakeidentd, fallocate, false,
fatattr, fbset, fbsplash, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk, fgconsole, fgrep,
find, findfs, flock, fold, free, freeramdisk, fsck, fsck.minix,
fsfreeze, fstrim, fsync, ftpd, ftpget, ftpput, fuser, getopt, getty,
grep, groups, gunzip, gzip, halt, hd, hdparm, head, hexdump, hostname,
httpd, hush, hwclock, i2cdetect, i2cdump, i2cget, i2cset, id, ifconfig,
ifdown, ifenslave, ifplugd, ifup, inetd, init, inotifyd, insmod,
install, ionice, iostat, ip, ipaddr, ipcalc, iplink, ipneigh, iproute,
iprule, iptunnel, kbd_mode, kill, killall, killall5, klogd, less, link,
linux32, linux64, linuxrc, ln, loadkmap, logger, logname, losetup, lpd,
lpq, lpr, ls, lsattr, lsmod, lsof, lspci, lsscsi, lsusb, lzcat, lzma,
lzop, lzopcat, makedevs, makemime, man, md5sum, mesg, microcom, mkdir,
mkdosfs, mke2fs, mkfifo, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.minix, mkfs.reiser, mkfs.vfat,
mknod, mkpasswd, mkswap, mktemp, modinfo, modprobe, more, mount,
mountpoint, mpstat, mt, mv, nameif, nbd-client, nc, netstat, nice, nl,
nmeter, nohup, nproc, nsenter, nslookup, ntpd, od, openvt, partprobe,
paste, patch, pgrep, pidof, ping, ping6, pipe_progress, pivot_root,
pkill, pmap, popmaildir, poweroff, powertop, printenv, printf, ps,
pscan, pstree, pwd, pwdx, raidautorun, rdate, rdev, readlink,
readprofile, realpath, reboot, reformime, renice, reset, resize, rev,
rfkill, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, rpm, rpm2cpio, rtcwake, run-parts,
runsv, runsvdir, rx, script, scriptreplay, sed, sendmail, seq, setarch,
setconsole, setkeycodes, setlogcons, setpriv, setserial, setsid,
setuidgid, sh, sha1sum, sha256sum, sha3sum, sha512sum, showkey, shred,
shuf, slattach, sleep, smemcap, softlimit, sort, split,
start-stop-daemon, stat, strings, stty, sum, sv, svc, svlogd, swapoff,
swapon, switch_root, sync, sysctl, tac, tail, tar, taskset, tcpsvd,
tee, telnet, telnetd, test, tftp, tftpd, time, timeout, top, touch, tr,
traceroute, traceroute6, true, truncate, tty, ttysize, tunctl, tune2fs,
ubiattach, ubidetach, ubimkvol, ubirmvol, ubirsvol, ubiupdatevol,
udpsvd, uevent, umount, uname, uncompress, unexpand, uniq, unix2dos,
unlink, unlzma, unlzop, unshare, unxz, unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode,
uuencode, vconfig, vi, volname, watch, watchdog, wc, wget, which,
whoami, whois, xargs, xxd, xz, xzcat, yes, zcat, zcip

Requirements:

  • Device with architecture ARM, x86 or MIPS
  • Android 2.3 (API 9) or later
  • Superuser permissions (root)

Use without root permissions

To access busybox tools without superuser privileges, perform the following command in Android terminal:

export PATH=/data/data/ru.meefik.busybox/files/bin:$PATH

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