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What is ToyBox?

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Toybox provides simple, small, fast, and correct implementations of all the -standard Linux command line utilities.

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Toybox should scale from tiny embedded systems up to general purpose -development environments. We test using it on Android phones in place of -Toolbox, and the Aboriginal Linux project is working -to get a complete Linux system to rebuild itself from source code using -toybox.

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Toybox is released under what's been nicknamed a "zero -clause BSD" license, essentially public domain with a liability -disclaimer.

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Toybox combines the most common Linux command line utilities together into +a single BSD-licensed executable. It's simple, small, fast, and reasonably +standards-compliant (POSIX-2008 and LSB 4.1).

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Toybox can be built as a single multicall ("swiss army knife") executable, -or each command can be built as a traditional independent executable.

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Toybox's 1.0 release goal is to turn generic Android into a +development environment capable of compiling Linux From Scratch. +A tiny system built from just toybox, linux, a C library, and a C compiler (such as LLVM or +gcc 4.2.1+binutils 2.17) should be +able to rebuild itself from source code without needing any other packages.

What commands are implemented in Toybox?

The current list of commands implemented by toybox is on the status page, which is updated each release. -There is also roadmap of planned commands for the +There is also roadmap listing all planned commands for the 1.0 release.

In general, configuring toybox for "defconfig" enables all the commands -- cgit v1.2.3