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Project Summary

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.

BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedd

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30 Day Summary

Apr 27 2025 — May 27 2025

12 Month Summary

May 27 2024 — May 27 2025
  • 91 Commits
    Down -32 (26%) from previous 12 months
  • 14 Contributors
    Down -4 (22%) from previous 12 months