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[–] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins

Note: GNU cousins, not GNU coreutils.

GNU awk, GNU grep, bash, wget, etc will give you a lot more features than the busybox equivalents. However the uutils nor coreutils implement those features at all.

If anything the comparison is not being fair to busybox because busybox implements a lot more utilities.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Busybox ls has 26 flags. GNU ls has 60.

[–] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

fair, in that case the comparison is even since busybox provides a shell, awk, grep, wget among other 395 utils, uutils it is 115.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 3 points 12 hours ago

I really don't think these are clearly comparable. I would rather see two more similar projects with comparable functionality that are both attempting to optimize for program binary size.