> -----Original Message----- > From: tastytea <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 7, 2022 8:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Change History of linux commands > > On 2022-10-07 17:25+0200 n952162 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am 07.10.22 um 16:56 schrieb Grant Taylor: > > > On 10/7/22 8:25 AM, n952162 wrote: > > >> Can anybody tell me how I can look at the official change history > > >> of linux commands? > > > > > > Some man pages have history of commands in them. > > > > > > Admittedly, it seems as if man pages on Solaris and *BSD (I have > > > access to FreeBSD) tend to be better than Linux man page at this > > > aspect. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Well, the man page, yes, would be a good indicator, but the commands > > themselves? > > > > Where does gentoo get the source to build test(1) or expr(1) or > > date(1)? That's in some package, but where is the upstream source? > > Is it something in github? Or a linux portal? Or Torvalds private > > server? Or the gnu server? > > > > > > /usr/bin/test[1] was installed by sys-apps/coreutils[2], it's homepage is > <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>[3], that links to the source code > repository. > > Other ways to find out: > - `equery meta sys-apps/coreutils` > - `less $(portageq get_repo_path / > gentoo)/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.32-r1.ebuild` > > Kind regards, tastytea > > [1] `whereis test` > [2] `qfile /usr/bin/test` or `equery belongs /usr/bin/test` [3] `eix > sys-apps/coreutils` or emerge -s sys-apps/coreutils` >
Note also that several of these may have copies built into your shell for speed and so that you can update the system utilities without an outage. "bash -c help" or "busybox --help" or similar to see the list. LMP
