Is there an alternative command prompt available for iOS, at least some kind of a BusyBox? I miss a lot of commands in the native one, beginning with ps.

There is no command prompt in iOS. Is strictly a touch interface. Though you can't do a few things from Siri, the slowly evolving voice interface.

Ahem... Hacking Section... Jailbroken... Command Prompt available.

Simply install OpenSSH from Cydia, connect to the device via your favourite terminal program, and viola.



You get access to killall, mktemp, renice, time, which, iostat, login, passwd, sync, sysctl etc.

There are lots of other console packages you can install via Cydia to get a much fuller command line experience. You should turn on "Developer" mode in Cydia > Manage > Settings to see all the packages available.

In order to get access to "ps" you need to install the "adv-cmds" package.

Hope that helps!

I only have the following commands:


So adv-cmds package is the one I should install to get all the rest?

Originally Posted by Commodore

I only have the following commands:
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So adv-cmds package is the one I should install to get all the rest?

adv-cmds is the one you should install to get ps, which is the one you mentioned. Have a look into all the other terminal packages to get more commands. There is no single package to provide them "all".

Originally Posted by f4780y

Ahem... Hacking Section... Jailbroken... Command Prompt available.

Oops. Didn't notice what section I was in. That's the problem with viewing new posts via the RSS feed.

Thanks. Is there any comprehensive list on how/where to look for other commands/packages? After the upgrade to 6.1, I seem to have lost uptime, whoami, whois, and probably some others as well (also, still haven't found "less" or "more"). I managed to find and install Midnight Commander. And my Cydia is set to "developer".

EDIT: Seems the missing commands were added by subsequent installation of Mobile Terminal app.