busybox 1.37.0-1

69 Unix commands in one binary

Short:        69 Unix commands in one binary
Author:       Samuel Kielek (port), BusyBox authors
Uploader:     cygnus amigascne org (Samuel Kielek)
Type:         util/cli
Version:      1.37.0-1
Architecture: m68k-amigaos >= 3.0
Distribution: Aminet

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common Unix utilities into a
single small executable. This is BusyBox built for AmigaOS: one 400K
program that is awk, sed, grep, find, sort, md5sum, tar, gzip, diff,
ls, cat, wc and 57 others, depending on the name it is called by.

    busybox sed s/two/TWO/ RAM:a.txt
    busybox find Work: -name "*.c"
    busybox md5sum Work:archive.lha

Soft links in the c/ drawer make each applet a command of its own,
and a script to create them is included. None replaces an AmigaDOS
command: the nine names that exist in SYS:C are left unlinked and
reached as "busybox grep ..." instead.

These are Unix commands with no shell to run them from. AmigaOS has
no fork(), so sh, ps and top cannot work, and xargs cannot run what
it reads. Paths are AmigaOS paths (RAM:, Work:src/x). There is no "."
and no stderr, so error messages appear on the console with
everything else.

Needs a 68020 or better and AmigaOS 3.0+, or AROS 68k. Nothing else
to install: no ixemul.library and no assigns. Tested on AmigaOS 3.1,
3.2.3, 3.9 and ApolloOS R9.5.

The archive includes the port's complete source under src/: the
patch against BusyBox git, the AmigaOS glue, the configuration and
the build script. BusyBox is GPLv2.