How can I get started using BusyBox?
If you just want to try out busybox without installing it, download the tarball, extract it, run “make defconfig”, and then run “make”. This will create a busybox binary with almost all features enabled. To try out a busybox applet, type “./busybox [appletname] [options]”, for example “./busybox ls -l” or “./busybox cat LICENSE”. Type “./busybox” to see a command list, and “busybox appletname –help” to see a brief usage message for a given applet. BusyBox uses the name it was invoked under to determine which applet is being invoked. (Try “mv busybox ls” and then “./ls -l”.) Installing busybox consists of creating symlinks (or hardlinks) to the busybox binary for each applet in busybox, and making sure these links are in the shell’s command $PATH. The special applet name “busybox” (or with any optional suffix, such as “busybox-static”) uses the first argument to determine which applet to run, as shown above. BusyBox also has a feature called the “standalone shell”, where the busybox sh
