[TUHS] the first busybox

Arnold Robbins via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Fri Oct 23 01:06:43 AEST 2026


ron minnich via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> I got to wondering how far back this idea went in the Unix world. I just
> can't remember.

As Warner mentioned, some commands did this based on looking at
argv[0]. In particular, System III and IV had cp, ln, and mv all in
one binary.  That was circa 1980. I'm not sure I know of others.

Arnold


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