How to install busybox

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable.

This may help you when you got your shell broken since busybox in independent binary which includes a lot of commands inside.

In simple words this tool can save your life 🙂

Find the latest version of busybox at https://busybox.net/downloads/binaries

Then install it as the following:

wget -O /usr/bin/busybox https://busybox.net/downloads/binaries/1.35.0-x86_64-linux-musl/busybox

chmod +x /usr/bin/busybox

Its done.

Use the following command to see all inbuilt commands:

busybox --list

Some examples:

busybox ln -s /lib/libc-2.12.so /lib/libc.so.6
busybox mv folder folder_old

Sources:

https://busybox.net/

https://busybox.net/about.html

https://busybox.net/downloads/binaries/

 

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