From 9cf3bfa7c1bf3ad959c61711c9a5ac1969149300 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Andersen Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:49:43 +0000 Subject: More doc updates for BusyBox, with fixes to apps for bugs revealed while trying to write docs . :-) -Erik --- docs/CommandList | 1025 ------------------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 1025 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 docs/CommandList (limited to 'docs/CommandList') diff --git a/docs/CommandList b/docs/CommandList deleted file mode 100644 index 03c74bb87..000000000 --- a/docs/CommandList +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1025 +0,0 @@ -The following document includes a continuous description of the current -commands, functions and utilities included in the busybox. - -John Cooper -johnc@lineo.com - -_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - BusyBox 0.38, Functions and the Arguments they Support - - -New Apps that have been added to BusyBox since this document was written: - ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, head, sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm. - - - -______________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -cat [file] - Display file contents to standard output. - - - - -_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -chmod [-R] Mode,[Mode] file - - Change file access permissions (mode) of one or more files. - - -R Follows the directory tree from the current location thru all sub-directories, - - applying changes. - - Mode = u User - - g Group - - o Other - - a All - - Permission = r Read - - w Write - - s Set user (or group) ID - - t Sticky bit file cannot be removed by other - - than the owner. - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -chown [option] owner[group]file - - Change owner and (or) group of file to owner and (or) group. - - Only the current owner or a priveleged user may change an owner. - - -R Follows the directory tree from the current location thru all sub-directories, applying - - changes. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - - -chgrp [option] newgroup file - - Change group of file or files to new group name or ID number located in /etc/group. - - Only the current owner or a priveleged user may change the group name or ID - - -R Follows the directory tree from the current location thru all sub-directories, - - applying changes. - - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -chroot NEWROOT [Command...] (System Admin Command) - - Run command with root directory set to NEWROOT. Only the current owner or a priveleged - - user may use this command. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -clear - - Clear screen. - - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -cp [option] fileA fileB - - Copy fileA to fileB or fileA to directory maintaining fileA name. - - -a archive Maintain file attributes whenever possible. Same as -dpR - - -d no dereference Maintain hard link relationships between fileA and fileB. - - No dereference of symbolic links. - - -p maintain file Maintain all file attributes and information including owner - - attributes group permissions and time information. - - -R recursive Copies directories recursively - - - - - -_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -date [option [+format] [date] - -date [option] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.SS]] - - Display the current system date and time. - - -R RFC-822 string Output an RFC-822 compliant date string. - - -s set DATE Set date where date is entered in MMDDhhmm etc. format. - - -u universal Print or set Coordinated Universal Time. - - - - - -_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - - -dd [if=name] [of=name] [bs=n] [count=n] - - - Copy a file, converting and formatting according to options. Most useful when copying from - - physical input and output devices. - - if=fileA (instead of standard input) - - of=fileB (instead of standard output) - - bs=n Read and write N Bytes at a time. - - count=n Copy only n input blocks. - - Bytes may be suffixed by k for x1024, b for x512 and w for x2. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -df - - - Display filesystem, number of blocks used, number of blocks available, number of blocks in use, - - and mount point. - - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - - -dmesg [-c] [-n level] [-s bufsize] (System Admin Command) - - - Display system control messages. Stored in the kernel ring buffer are all messages since the - - last system boot, or the most recent if the buffer had been full. - - - -c Clear buffer after printing messages. - - -n level Set the level of system message to be displayed on the console. - - -s bufsize Display the size of the kernel ring buffer. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - - -find [PATH] [EXPRESSION] - - Search for files in the current directory, and all subdirectories for patterns that match - - expression. Expressions may consist of the following. - - -follow Dereference symbolic links. - - -name PATTERN Find files that match PATTERN. Metacharacters should be escaped or - - quoted. - - -print Print full file name, followed by a newline, to standard out. - - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -chvt N - - Change foreground virtual terminal to /dev/ttyN. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -deallocvt N - - Deallocate unused virtual terminal /dev/ttyN. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -fsck.minix [-larvsmf] /dev/name - - Perform a consistency check for minix filesystems. - - -l List filenames. - - -r Perform interactive repairs. - - -a Perform automatic repairs - - -v Verbose - - -s Output superblock information - - -m Activates minix-like "mode not cleared" warnings. - - -f Force file system check. - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -mkfs.minix [-c | -l filename ] [-nXX] [-iXX] /dev/name [blocks] - - Make a minix file system. - - -c Check device for bad blocks. - - -n [ 14|30 ] Specify max length of filenames. - - -i Specify number of inodes for filesystem. - - -l filename - - Read the bad blocks list from filename. - - -v Make a minix version 2 filesystem. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -grep [OPTIONS] PATTERN [FILE] - - Search for PATTERN in each FILE or from standard input. - - -h Suppress prefixing filename on output. - - -i Ignore case distinctions. - - -n Print line number with output lines. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -init - - The parent of all processes. Only to be run by the kernel. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -kill [ -s sigspec | -signum | -sigspec ] [pid | job ] or - -kill -l [ exitstatus ] - - Currently no information help page for this command - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -ln [option] TARGET... LINK_NAME|DIRECTORY - - Create a link named LINK_NAME or DIRECTORY to TARGET. - - -s Make symbolic links instead of hard links. - - -f Remove existing destination files. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -ls [ -1acdelnpuxACF ] [FILENAMES] - - List contents of directories. - - -1 Single entry per column of output. - - -a All files including hidden files beginning with a .. - - -c Files are listed by status change time. - - -d List directories, not there contents. - - -e List both full date and full time - - -l List in long format including permissions, owner, size - - modification time etc. - - -n Similar to -l, except use group ID and user ID instead - - of owner and group names. - - -p Directories are marked with a /. - - -u Display files sorted by file access time. - - -x Display files across the screen in rows. - - -A Display hidden and all other files except . and ... - - -C (Default, display files in columns) - - -F Tag files by type by appending: - - / to directories - - * to executables - - @ to symbolic links - - | to fifo's - - = to sockets - - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -mkdir [OPTION] directory - - Create directories if they do not already exist. You must have write permission to create - - directories. Default mode can be modified by users umask. - - -m Used to set permission mode. (See chmod description) - - -p Make parent directories if they don't already exist. Return error code if - - they already exist. - - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -mknod NAME TYPE MAJOR MINOR - -Make block or character special files. - -TYPEs include: - b: Make a block (buffered) device. - c or u: Make a character (un-buffered) device. - p: Make a named pipe. Major and minor are ignored for named pipes. - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - - -mkswap [-c] [ -v0|-v1 ] device [block-count] - - Prepare a disk partition to be used as a swap partition. - - -c Check for read-ability. - - -v0 Make version 0 swap [max 128 megs] - - -v1 Make version 1 swap [big |] default for - - kernels > 2.1.117. - - block-count - - Number of blocks to use. (Default is the entire - - partition). - - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -more [file] - - Display file one screen page at a time. - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -mount [flags] - -mount [flags] device directory [-o options, more options ] - - Mount a filesystem for file access. - - -a Mount all file systems in fstab. - - -o option - - async/sync: Writes are asynchronous/synchronous. - - dev/nodev: Allow use of special device files - - /disallow them. - - exec/noexec: Allow use of executable files - - /disallow them. - - suid/nosuid: Allow set-user-id-root programs - - /disallow them. - - remount: Remount a currently-mounted filesystem - - changing it's flags. - - ro/rw: Mount for read-only/read-write. - - (There are more flags specific to each filesystem. - - See the written documentation for those.) - - -r Mount the filesystem read only. - - -t FILESYSTEM TYPE - - Specify the filesystem type. - - -w Mount for reading and writing default - - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - - -mv fileA fileB or - -mv fileA dirA - - Move fileA to fileB. (Renames fileA to fileB) - - Move fileA to dirA (Moves fileA into dirA) - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -ps - - Report process status. No options are currently supported. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -pwd - - Print working directory - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -reboot - - Reboot system. No options are currently supported. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -rm [option] file - - Remove or unlink the files. - - -f Remove existing destinations. Never prompt. - - -r or -R Remove contents of directories recursively. - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -rmdir [OPTION] ... directory - - Remove directories if they are empty. - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - -sed - Usage: sed [-n] -e script [file...] - - Allowed sed scripts come in the following form: - 'ADDR [!] COMMAND' - - where address ADDR can be: - NUMBER Match specified line number - $ Match last line - /REGEXP/ Match specified regexp - (! inverts the meaning of the match) - - and COMMAND can be: - s/regexp/replacement/[igp] - which attempt to match regexp against the pattern space - and if successful replaces the matched portion with replacement. - - aTEXT - which appends TEXT after the pattern space - Options: - -e add the script to the commands to be executed - -n suppress automatic printing of pattern space - - This version of sed matches full regular expresions. - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -sleep N - - Pause for N seconds. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -tar -[cxtvOf] [tarFileName] [file] - - Create, extract or list files from a tar file. - - c=create - - x=extract - - t=list contents - - v=verbose - - O=extract to stdout - - f=tarfile or "-" for standard input - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -swapon device - - Start swapping virtual memory pages on the given device. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -swapoff device - - Stop swapping virtual memory pages on the given device. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -sync - - Write all buffered filesystem blocks to disk. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -touch [-c] file [file...] - - Update the last modified date on given file(s). - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -true - - A null command that returns a successful 0 exit status code. (See false) - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -false - - A null command that returns an unsuccessful or non-zero exit status. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -uname [option] - - Print certain system information. With no option, same as -s. - - -a Display all information - - -m Display machine hardware type. - - -n Display machine network node hostname. - - -r Display OS release - - -s Display OS Name. - - -p Display Host processor type. - - -v Display OS Version. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -umount [flags] filesystem | directory - - Unmounts designated filesystem previously mounted on device. - - -a Unmount all file systems. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -update - -cvs update [options] files - - Incorporates recent changes from the repository into files in your working directory. No - - options are currently supported. - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -zcat [options] files - - Usage: zcat [OPTION]... FILE - - Uncompress FILE (or standard input if FILE is '-'). - (When invoked as zcat, defaults to having -c turned on) - - Options: - -c Write output to standard output - -t Test compressed file integrity - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -gunzip (Same as zcat, but without the "-c" option.) - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -gzip [OPTION]... FILE - - Compress FILE with maximum compression. - When FILE is -, reads standard input. Implies -c. - - Options: - -c Write output to standard output instead of FILE.gz - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - - -loadfont - - No information available with --help. - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -loadkmap - - No information available with --help - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - - - - - -linuxrc - - No information available with --help - - - - - -________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - -- cgit v1.2.3