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# What is BusyBox? The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
Coming in somewhere between 1 and 5 Mb in on-disk size (depending on the variant), [BusyBox](http://www.busybox.net/) is a very good ingredient to craft space-efficient distributions.
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system.
> [wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox)
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# How to use this image
## Run BusyBox shell
```console
$ docker run -it --rm %%IMAGE%%
```
This will drop you into an `sh` shell to allow you to do what you want inside a BusyBox system.
## Create a `Dockerfile` for a binary
```dockerfile
FROM %%IMAGE%%
COPY ./my-static-binary /my-static-binary
CMD ["/my-static-binary"]
```
This `Dockerfile` will allow you to create a minimal image for your statically compiled binary. You will have to compile the binary in some other place like another container. For a simpler alternative that's similarly tiny but easier to extend, [see `alpine`](https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine/).