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Sometimes this is used for other purposes, as well. For instance, the busybox binary provides a lot of utilities (cp, init, ping etc) all linked to /bin/busybox
by skykooler 11y ago
Sometimes this is used for other purposes, as well. For instance, the busybox binary provides a lot of utilities (cp, init, ping etc) all linked to /bin/busybox, which uses the name it is called under to determine which program to run.
- tobik 11y agoegrep, fgrep, grep (+ z* variants) share the same binary too.
- Tiksi 11y agoThese are all deprecated by the way. I just alias them now since egrep is muscle memory and hard to break.
- amelius 11y agoThe GNU mtools also used this scheme. So the idea goes back pretty far. (Mtools is a collection of tools to allow Unix systems to manipulate MS-DOS files: read, write, and move around files on an MS-DOS filesystem, typically a floppy disk.)