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Android's shell and utilities

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# Android's shell and utilities

Since IceCreamSandwich Android has used

[mksh](https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm) as its shell. Before then it used

full list for a release by running `toybox` directly.

Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)

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## Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)

BSD: cat dd newfs\_msdos

umount uptime vmstat watchprops wipe

Android 4.0 (IceCreamSandwich)

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## Android 4.0 (IceCreamSandwich)

BSD: cat dd newfs\_msdos

touch umount uptime vmstat watchprops wipe

Android 4.1-4.3 (JellyBean)

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## Android 4.1-4.3 (JellyBean)

BSD: cat cp dd du grep newfs\_msdos

sync top touch umount uptime vmstat watchprops wipe

Android 4.4 (KitKat)

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## Android 4.4 (KitKat)

BSD: cat cp dd du grep newfs\_msdos

stop swapoff swapon sync top touch umount uptime vmstat watchprops wipe

Android 5.0 (Lollipop)

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## Android 5.0 (Lollipop)

BSD: cat chown cp dd du grep kill ln mv printenv rm rmdir sleep sync

top touch umount uptime vmstat watchprops wipe

Android 6.0 (Marshmallow)

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## Android 6.0 (Marshmallow)

BSD: dd du grep

vmstat wc which whoami xargs yes

Android 7.0 (Nougat)

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## Android 7.0 (Nougat)

BSD: dd grep

uptime usleep vmstat wc which whoami xargs xxd yes

Android 8.0 (Oreo)

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## Android 8.0 (Oreo)

BSD: dd grep

tty ulimit umount uname uniq unix2dos uptime usleep uudecode uuencode

vmstat wc which whoami xargs xxd yes zcat

Android P

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## Android 9.0 (Pie)

BSD: dd grep

umount uname uniq unix2dos uptime usleep uudecode uuencode vmstat wc

which whoami xargs xxd yes zcat

Android Q

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## Android Q

BSD: grep fsck\_msdos newfs\_msdos

toolbox: getevent getprop

toybox: acpi base64 basename blockdev cal cat chcon chgrp chmod chown

chroot chrt cksum clear cmp comm cp cpio cut date dd df diff dirname

dmesg dos2unix du echo env expand expr fallocate false file find flock

fmt free getenforce groups gunzip gzip head hostname hwclock id ifconfig

inotifyd insmod ionice iorenice kill killall ln load\_policy log logname

losetup ls lsmod lsof lspci lsusb md5sum microcom mkdir mkfifo mknod

mkswap mktemp modinfo modprobe more mount mountpoint mv nc netcat netstat

nice nl nohup nsenter od paste patch pgrep pidof pkill pmap printenv

printf ps pwd readlink realpath renice restorecon rm rmdir rmmod runcon

sed sendevent seq setenforce setprop setsid sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum

sha384sum sha512sum sleep sort split start stat stop strings stty swapoff

swapon sync sysctl tac tail tar taskset tee time timeout top touch tr

true truncate tty ulimit umount uname uniq unix2dos unshare uptime usleep

uudecode uuencode vmstat wc which whoami xargs xxd yes zcat

toybox: acpi base64 basename bc blkid blockdev cal cat chattr chcon chgrp

chmod chown chroot chrt cksum clear cmp comm cp cpio cut date dd df

diff dirname dmesg dos2unix du echo egrep env expand expr fallocate

false fgrep file find flock fmt free freeramdisk fsfreeze getconf

getenforce getfattr grep groups gunzip gzip head help hostname hwclock

i2cdetect i2cdump i2cget i2cset iconv id ifconfig inotifyd insmod

install ionice iorenice iotop kill killall ln load\_policy log logname

losetup ls lsattr lsmod lsof lspci lsusb makedevs md5sum microcom

mkdir mkfifo mknod mkswap mktemp modinfo modprobe more mount mountpoint

mv nbd-client nc netcat netstat nice nl nohup nproc nsenter od partprobe

paste patch pgrep pidof ping ping6 pivot\_root pkill pmap printenv

printf prlimit ps pwd pwdx readlink realpath renice restorecon rev

rfkill rm rmdir rmmod runcon sed sendevent seq setenforce setfattr

setprop setsid sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum sleep

sort split start stat stop strings stty swapoff swapon sync sysctl

tac tail tar taskset tee time timeout top touch tr traceroute traceroute6

true truncate tty tunctl ulimit umount uname uniq unix2dos unlink

unshare uptime usleep uudecode uuencode uuidgen vconfig vmstat watch

wc which whoami xargs xxd yes zcat