List of Busybox Commands

The official BusyBox documentation lists an overview of the available commands and their command-line options.

List of BusyBox commands

• 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 — Display a specified line of text
• egrep
• fgrep
• getty
• 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
• mdev — akin to udev
• mkdir — Create a folder
• more — View FILE or standard input one screen-full at a time
• 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
• rpm2cpio
• rstats — Copyright of BusyBox
• rtcwake
• runlevel
• run-parts
• runsv
• runsvdir
• rx
• script
• sed — Text stream editor
• setkeycodes
• setlogcons
• setsid
• setuidgid
• sh
• sha1sum — Compute and check SHA-1 message digest
• sha256sum — Compute and check SHA-512 message digest
• sleep — Suspend program execution for a specified time
• start-stop-daemon
• stat
• strings
• stty — Change and print terminal line settings
• su — Execute commands with privileges of another user account
• sulogin
• sum — Checksum and count blocks in a file
• sv
• svlogd
• swapoff
• swapon
• switch_root
• sync — Write all buffered file system blocks to disk
• sysctl
• syslogd
• tac — Concatenate and print files in reverse line order
• tail — Output last of file
• tar
• taskset
• tcpsvd
• tee — Send output to multiple files
• telnet
• telnetd
• test
• tftp
• tftpd
• time
• timeout — Run a command with a time limit
• top
• touch — Update the last-modified date on the given FILE[s]
• tr — Translate or delete characters
• traceroute
• true
• tty
• ttysize
• udhcpc — Small DHCP client
• udhcpd
• udpsvd
• umount — Unmount file systems
• uname — Display system information
• uncompress
• unexpand
• uniq
• unix2dos
• unlzma
• unlzop
• unzip
• uptime — Tell how long the system has been running.
• usleep — Pause for N [microseconds]
• vconfig — VLAN (802.1q) configuration program
• vi — (visual) Edit FILE
• vlock — Virtual Console lock program
• volname — Return volume name
• watch — Execute a program periodically
• watchdog — Software watchdog daemon
• wc — Word, line, and byte or character count
• wget
• which — Shows the full path of (shell) commands
• who — Display who is on the system
• whoami — Print effective userid
• xargs — Construct argument lists and invoke utility
• yes — to print a string repetitively
• zcat — Uncompress to stdout
• zcip