BusyBox - Commands

Commands

In the official documentation at you find an overview of the available commands and their command-line options.

  • ash
  • awk
  • cat - Copy file content to stdout
  • chmod - Change file modes
  • cp - Copy
  • date - Display system date/time
  • dd - Copy a file with converting and formatting
  • df - Print filesystem usage statistics
  • dmesg
  • echo
  • egrep
  • fgrep
  • grep - Search for PATTERN in each FILE or standard input
  • gunzip - Compressed file expansion
  • gzip - File compression
  • init
  • kill - Kill a process
  • ln - Create a link named LINK_NAME or DIRECTORY to the specified TARGET.
  • login - Begin a new session on the system
  • ls - List of files or folders
  • mdu
  • mdev - akin to udev
  • mkdir - Create a folder
  • more - View FILE or standard input one screen full at a time, not long list to scroll
  • mount - Mount file systems
  • mv - move file
  • nc - networking swiss army knife
  • netstat - Display networking information
  • ntpc
  • ntpsync
  • nvram
  • pidof - List PIDs of all processes with names that match NAMEs
  • ping - Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts
  • ps - Report process status
  • pwd - Print working directory
  • rm - Erase file
  • rmdir - Remove directory
  • rstats - Copyright of BusyBox
  • sed - Text stream editor
  • sh
  • sleep - Suspend programme execution for a specified time
  • sync - Write all buffered file system blocks to disk
  • tar
  • touch - Update the last-modified date on the given FILE
  • udhcpc - Small DHCP client
  • umount - Unmount file systems
  • uname - Display system information
  • usleep - Pause for N
  • vi - Edit FILE
  • watch - Execute a program periodically
  • zcat - Uncompress to stdout

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