Toybox: All-in-One Linux Command Line Implementation
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Summary
Toybox is an all-in-one Linux command line implementation that combines many common Unix commands into a single executable, similar to BusyBox. It's designed as a BSD-licensed alternative to BusyBox with a focus on clean code, POSIX compliance, and being a teaching tool. The project provides static binaries for various targets and emphasizes being a learning resource for understanding how command line tools work internally.
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The special name "toybox" was chosen because this is a toy project to learn how things work.
Toybox combines many common Linux command line utilities together into a single BSD-licensed executable.
The goal is to make a BSD-licensed simple implementation for use in embedded systems and as a teaching tool.
Toybox starts from scratch and doesn't borrow code from other projects.
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