busybox-on-windows

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

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name: busybox-on-windows
description: "How to use a Win32 build of BusyBox to run many of the standard UNIX command line tools on Windows."
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source: community
date_added: "2026-02-27"
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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
How to Use

Recommended: Install to project (local)

mkdir -p .claude/skills
curl -o .claude/skills/busybox-on-windows.md \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills/main/skills/busybox-on-windows/SKILL.md

Skill is scoped to this project only. Add .claude/skills/ to your .gitignoreif you don't want to commit it.

Alternative: Clone full repo

git clone https://github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills

Then reference at skills/busybox-on-windows/SKILL.md

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