From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: Silly Question Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:41:19 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20030618073330.02009c18@celine> References: <00a601c33577$75d0bba0$e764a8c0@fesnel.noip.org> <1055903157.9558.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3EEFF697.6060309@heem.org> <200306180834.56048.my@masterpe.nl> <00a601c33577$75d0bba0$e764a8c0@fesnel.noip.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3EF034A7.2050308@vip.cybercity.dk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie At 11:45 AM 6/18/2003 +0200, Flemming Greve Skovengaard wrote: >John T. Williams wrote: >>anyone know how or where I could get the source code for basic linux >>programs like "ls" and or "mkdir" or "rm" ? [...] >The basic fileutils (ls, cp, rm, etc) can be found at: >http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/fileutils.html > >You might also want to take a look at: >http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ > >GNU's webpage holds many if not all of the Linux utils. >http://www.gnu.org/ Good options all. An additional one is the source packages associated with whichever Linux distribution you use. In Debian, as an example, you can use the command "dpkg-query -S filename" to find the package that holds any file actually on your system. You can then use "apt-get source packagename" to install it. I imagine the other packaging systems (or at least RPM) have analogous capabilities. Slackware CDs used to include a complete filelist that you could grep to match an app to its .tgz package. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs