(resending with correct From: address) n952162 <n952...@web.de> writes:
> Am 07.10.22 um 16:25 schrieb n952162: >> Can anybody tell me how I can look at the official change history of >> linux commands? >> >> For example, the test(1) command used to have a regular-expression >> parser built in. No longer, and more surprising, there's no discussion >> of its disappearance on the internet; that I can find, at any rate. >> >> I'd to know when it disappeared and what discussions, by whom, preceded >> that. > Sorry, I'm thinking of the expr(1) command. The man pages (and source code) of old versions of UNIX can be found at https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl e.g. ("man 1 expr" from Jan 1992) https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V10/man/man1/expr.1 For more human readable output $ cd tmp $ cat > oldman.1 <copy and paste> $ man ./oldman.1 -- Alan J. Wylie https://www.wylie.me.uk/ Dance like no-one's watching. / Encrypt like everyone is. Security is inversely proportional to convenience
