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BusyBox tools:

Category Tools Description
File & Directory Management cat, chattr, chmod, chown, cp, dd, ln, mkdir, mv, rm, rmdir, touch Basic file, directory, and permission manipulation.
Viewing & Filtering awk, cut, grep, head, less, more, sed, sort, tail, vi, wc, xargs Text processing, pattern matching, and file viewing.
Disk & Filesystems df, du, fdisk, fsck, fstrim, mkfs, mount, umount Disk storage monitoring, partitioning, and formatting.
Processes & Users addgroup, adduser, chpasswd, kill, ps, top, nice, passwd User accounts, groups, and process tracking.
Logging & Time date, dmesg, hwclock, logger, syslogd, uptime System logs, kernel messages, and system time management.
System Control halt, init, poweroff, reboot, watchdog Device initialization, power management, and recovery.
Network Config arp, hostname, ifconfig, ip, netstat, route Network interface and routing configuration.
Network Comm ftpd, httpd, nc, nslookup, ping, tftp, telnet, traceroute, wget Data transfer, web serving, diagnostics, and testing.
Compression bzip2, gzip, unzip, xz, zcat Reducing file sizes and viewing compressed files.
Archiving ar, cpio, rpm2cpio, tar Bundling multiple files into single archive files.

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Category Tools Category Tools Category Tools
File / Dir cat, chmod, chown, cp, dd, ln, mkdir, mv, rm, touch Process / User adduser, chpasswd, kill, ps, top, passwd Net Config arp, hostname, ifconfig, ip, netstat, route
Text / View awk, cut, grep, head, less, sed, sort, tail, vi, wc Log / Time date, dmesg, hwclock, logger, syslogd, uptime Net Comm ftpd, httpd, nc, nslookup, ping, wget
Disk / FS df, du, fdisk, fsck, fstrim, mkfs, mount, umount Sys Control halt, init, poweroff, reboot, watchdog Archive / Zip ar, bzip2, gzip, tar, unzip, xz, zcat