Currently implemented commands:

basename, catv, chroot, count, df, dirname, dmesg, echo, false, hello, help, mkfifo, nc, netcat, oneit, patch, pwd, sh, sha1sum, sleep, sync, touch, toysh, true, tty, which, yes

News

January 2, 2008 - And toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2 is out. The new applets this time around include basename, chroot, dirname, dmesg, help, mkfifo, netcat, patch, sha1sum, touch, and tty.

Note that this "touch" includes -l to set the length, which can truncate a file or create a commpletely sparse file, good for filesystem images.

Expect the next release in about 6 months.

December 12, 2007 - Updated the list of implemented applications, put up a todo list and infrastructure documentation. Expect another release towards the end of the month.

June 18, 2007 - Put out toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2 since it's been too long since I did something like that. This one implements catv, count, df, echo, false, oneit, pwd, sleep, sync, toysh, true, which, and yes (which is what "make defconfig" enables). There are several other commands not enabled by defconfig, because they don't really work yet.

Most of the general infrastructure's there now, although lots of tweaking and optimizing is still needed. The test suite is skeletal and not entirely checked in yet, but I'm working on that.

I don't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd like, but I'm making a little progress.

January 31, 2007 - Toybox 0.0.2 release. Implements count, yes, pwd, echo, bzcat, catv, oneit, and an unfinished skeleton of mke2fs. Adds argument parsing logic and bunzip code to library. Now configured with menuconfig. Adds "make baseline" and "make bloatcheck" using Matt Mackall's bloat-o-meter, and scripts/showasm.

Screwing up the web page a bit, adding an index bar along the side which doesn't properly connect up to anything yet. (Busy implementing mke2fs and gene2fs.)

October 30, 2006 - Toybox 0.0.1 release. Implements df, a skeletal toysh, and some library functions. Proof of concept, really.

September 7, 2006 - Project launched, first commit to mercurial archive.