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Re: Source code for common Linux/Unix utilities.
In message <Pine.BSI.3.96.970704151141.15559C-100000@amos-08.cs.huji.ac.il> you
write:
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|Howdy...
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|I've been looking for the damn things forever, but where would one be able
|to find source code of many unix utilities? (bash I can get from GNU to
Depends on the utility and the distribution.
|compile it statically, okay, but where would I get login.c ? Or just plain
|old ls? ). Are the sources for the Linux versions diffrent from the source
These two are from the GNU utils, as far as I remember.
|code for other BSD versions of the same utilities?
Sometimes.
One place to look at, even if you are not a Debian user, are the
Debian archives, which include the source of all the packages. I
suppose RH have their own equivalent of this too. (look at
ftp.linux.org.il for both)
|Thanks,
|Nir.
|
|(running Slackware 3.0, which has long ago ceased to be a slackware.)
Upgrade - move to Debian, RH, whatever, but move.
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