Busybox on Android

As good as android is, it does lack some of the rather interesting linux tools that could be of a great use like busybox. Its good to have a command line interface to play around often to get information that click around in gui which makes things a bit too slow sometimes.
While I did try to compile the busybox binary and loading onto the phone, that didn't quite work. So I got one from here.
http://benno.id.au/android/busybox
Then I copied the binary into the tools folder

after running the emulator with ./emulator, I ran the
./adb push busybox /data/busybox/busybox
I logged into the shell with
./adb shell
# cd /data/busybox
(you might need to set permissions here if you downloaded the file)
# ./busybox --install

remember to export the path
export PATH=/data/busybox:$PATH
voila! got my busybox applets!!

Comments

Anonymous said…
It's great to see you do some nifty stuffs with busybox.
Good one Prasanna. ;)
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