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#5
Originally Posted by phedders View Post
I totally disagree. Busybox is very high quality software.

What I would agree with is that it is infuriatingly limited for interactive shells... especially when you are used to bash and the full GNU suite. But be clear - that is not because of poor quality, only it is natural because Busybox is written with very different design constraints and goals - and for what it is intended to do - its brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

(Sorry my FUD alarm just threw a wobbly!)
I didn't mean that busybox is low quality. I meant that built-in apps like grep etc got lower functionality than their cousins in standard linux bash.