Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:37:22 -0600 (CST) From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, y.lin@larc.nasa.gov Subject: Re: Where is FreeBSD source code Message-ID: <199702192237.QAA14470@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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> I am looking for source code of user commands (e.g. ls, rm,...). I looked in
> 2.1.5-RELEASE/src directory. Is this the correct directory?
> Wouldn't it be nice if you have description of all the subdirectories in
> the top dir (e.g. 2.1.5-RELEASE) so people can know which dir contains what?
Well, if you know where the ls and rm programs reside in an installed
system...
bash$ which rm
/bin/rm
bash$ which ls
/bin/ls
Then, if you're still not sure...
bash: man hier
[ cut ]
/usr/ contains the majority of user utilities and applications
bin/ common utilities, programming tools, and applications
[ more cut ]
src/ BSD and/or local source files
bin/ src for files in /bin
contrib/ src for files in /usr/contrib
etc/ src for files in /etc
games/ src for files in /usr/games
include/ src for files in /usr/include
And if you don't have a FreeBSD system handy, then grab the files
sbin.a?, cat them together, and untar/gzip them.
As an alternative, you can grab the necessary files from the -stable or
-current trees where they are not kept as tarballs:
ftp> ls rm
227 Entering Passive Mode (204,120,255,178,4,59)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 32
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 176 Apr 13 1995 Makefile
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4826 Jun 4 1996 rm.1
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 10196 Jun 4 1996 rm.c
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> pwd
257 "/pub/Mirrors/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable/src/bin" is current directory.
Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org
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