RE: Busybox identification

Jody Bruchon via busybox <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.busybox
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On March 25, 2026 10:30:29 AM EDT, Nigel Hopper <[email protected]> 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. 

ls /bin/busybox

>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?

strings -n 5 /bin/busybox | grep '[0-9]\.[0-9]'
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