[infofarmer]

somewhat related: /rescue/* on every FreeBSD system since 5.2 (2004) — a single statically linked ~17MB binary combining ~150 critical tools, hardlinked under their usual names

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?rescue https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/rescue/resc...

[washadjeffmad]

And I haven't needed to use it in fifteen years. Over the past four or five years, I've ported what I can to a *BSD, for sanity reasons.