Antigravity-awesome-skills busybox-on-windows

How to use a Win32 build of BusyBox to run many of the standard UNIX command line tools on Windows.

install
source · Clone the upstream repo
git clone https://github.com/benjaminasterA/antigravity-awesome-skills
Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/
T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/benjaminasterA/antigravity-awesome-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/busybox-on-windows" ~/.claude/skills/benjaminastera-antigravity-awesome-skills-busybox-on-windows && rm -rf "$T"
manifest: skills/busybox-on-windows/SKILL.md
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BusyBox is a single binary that implements many common Unix tools.

Use this skill only on Windows. If you are on UNIX, then stop here.

Run the following steps only if you cannot find a

busybox.exe
file in the same directory as this document is. These are PowerShell commands, if you have a classic
cmd.exe
terminal, then you must use
powershell -Command "..."
to run them.

  1. Print the type of CPU:
    Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Processor | Select-Object Name, NumberOfCores, MaxClockSpeed
  2. Print the OS versions:
    Get-ItemProperty "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" | Select-Object ProductName, DisplayVersion, CurrentBuild
  3. Download a suitable build of BusyBox by running one of these PowerShell commands:
    • 32-bit x86 (ANSI):
      $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'; Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://frippery.org/files/busybox/busybox.exe -OutFile busybox.exe
    • 64-bit x86 (ANSI):
      $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'; Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://frippery.org/files/busybox/busybox64.exe -OutFile busybox.exe
    • 64-bit x86 (Unicode):
      $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'; Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://frippery.org/files/busybox/busybox64u.exe -OutFile busybox.exe
    • 64-bit ARM (Unicode):
      $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'; Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://frippery.org/files/busybox/busybox64a.exe -OutFile busybox.exe

Useful commands:

  • Help:
    busybox.exe --list
  • Available UNIX commands:
    busybox.exe --list

Usage: Prefix the UNIX command with

busybox.exe
, for example:
busybox.exe ls -1

If you need to run a UNIX command under another CWD, then use the absolute path to

busybox.exe
.

Documentation: https://frippery.org/busybox/ Original BusyBox: https://busybox.net/

When to Use

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