The Android system commands
Native commands in /usr (bold)
- Comparison : diff cmp sort uniq
- Disks : mount df du fdisk pdisk disklabel newfs mkfs umount
- Edition : cut sed vi
- Files and directories : cd cp dd du ln ls mkdir mv pwd rm rmdir touch
- System : uname
- Permissions : chmod chgrp chown
- Process : kill nohup pidof pkill ps systat top
- Search : locate egrep fgrep find grep
- Session : login pwd logout
- Shell : ash bash csh ksh sh zsh
- Time : date sleep usleep
Native commands in /usr (italics)
- Specific : busybox dmesg mknod stty sync
- Other commands are available in busybox
These commands have been studied on an Android 2.2 Froyo tablet.
They may be different on other machines and other versions.