How to enable command `file` in busybox's applet?

[Jeff Pohlmeyer]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM Michael D. Setzer II <mikes at guam.net> wrote:
> I looked at the make menuconfig and didn't find file as a busybox applet. Also looked in .config, but file wasn't one of them?
> I use a busybox for my G4L project and it contains these commands.
...
> So file was not one of those?

I suppose the answer is still the same as it was twenty years ago:
https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2005-July/049224.html

 -- Jeff