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toybox — Multipurpose tool that provides many standard Unix utilities. Commonly used in Android and embedded

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Problem

How to use the toybox command: Multipurpose tool that provides many standard Unix utilities. Commonly used in Android and embedded Linux systems. More information: <https://landley.net/toybox/>.

Solution

toybox — Multipurpose tool that provides many standard Unix utilities. Commonly used in Android and embedded Linux systems. More information: <https://landley.net/toybox/>.

List all available Toybox commands:

toybox

Run a Toybox command explicitly (useful if another command with the same name exists in $PATH):

toybox {{command}} {{arguments}}

List files in the current directory:

toybox ls

Remove a file:

toybox rm {{path/to/file}}

Display help information for a specific command:

toybox {{command}} --help

Display version:

toybox --version

Code Snippets

List all available Toybox commands

toybox

Run a Toybox command explicitly (useful if another command with the same name exists in `$PATH`)

toybox {{command}} {{arguments}}

List files in the current directory

toybox ls

Remove a file

toybox rm {{path/to/file}}

Display help information for a specific command

toybox {{command}} --help

Context

tldr-pages: linux/toybox

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