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Re:Swiss File Knife – A Command Line Tools Collection by saagarjha on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:17PM (#26189647)
This seems to be cross-platform, while BusyBox is mostly Linux-only.
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Re:Swiss File Knife – A Command Line Tools Collection by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Friday February 19, 2021 @03:20AM (#26190808)
"Mostly". I recall trying a BusyBox from FreeBSD ports. Seemed sorta like a gimmick. Not really needed.

Wikipedia confirms my memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox

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Re:Swiss File Knife – A Command Line Tools Collection by augusto-moura on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:06AM (#26193260)
Busybox only gives full support for Linux, but can be and is frequently compile for a lot of operating systems, including Windows that is not a *nix per se and also embedded systems
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