On 3/25/26 15:30, Nigel Hopper via busybox wrote:
Hi Jody
I understand that it is not an OS as I mentioned in my original email.
But we need a unique way of identifying if Busybox is installed.
Since it is not an OS and does not use the os-release file, is there a
way to uniquely identify if Busybox is installed and what version that
might be?
echo `which busybox` && busybox |head -1
gives you
/bin/busybox
BusyBox v1.37.0 (2026-03-17 01:17:56 CET) multi-call binary.
as output. You're welcome. I suggest to watch/read some kind of "UNIX
commandline for beginners" tutorial, this is really basic knowledge you
should acquire in order to do your job properly.
This question has nothing at all to with busybox.
Bye
Tim
Very much keeping my fingers crossed that there is!
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*Date: *Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at 13:49
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*Subject: *[EXTERNAL] Re: Busybox identification
On March 25, 2026 9:44:37 AM EDT, Nigel Hopper via busybox
<[email protected]> wrote:
>My understanding is that Busybox does not do this as it sees itself as
>a collection of utilities that ‘acts’ like an OS, just in a very
>stripped-down way.
BusyBox is not an OS. It is a combined executable for embedded environments.
>Using the os-release file allows us to correctly identify which OS we
>are processing and how to ID all the packages in it.
>
>Is there any way Busybox can be identified as being the 'installed OS’
>other than if it was listed in an os-release file?
BusyBox is a user-mode program like any other. It is not an OS.
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