Busybox for Android

Using full linux commands on Android means you have to benefit from the convenience of busybox for Android.

 

The toolbox that is provided on the android environment is pretty limited. I wanted something more useful and familiar. busybox to the rescue!

 

I have a busybox binary available for those who are interested.

 

To use it simply do # mkdir/data/busybox, on your emulated console. then copy the busybox binary plain SS: $ ADB push busybox/data/busybox. once you do this you can install the necessary hardlinks by doing: # cd/data/busybox ;. /busybox -- install. once doing this you shoshould have links to all the applets in the/data/busybox directory. to make this useful you probably want to put this into your path: # export Path =/data/busybox: $ path.

 

You shoshould now be able to get access to all the useful busybox applets.

 

Update: busybox was a straight compile of the standard busybox 1.8.1 release. No changes were made to the source. source code available here or from the busybox website.

 

 

Http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/14/android-busybox