RE: [gentoo-user] Change History of linux commands

[Laurence Perkins <lperkins@openeye.net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tastytea <gentoo@tastytea.de> 
> Sent: Friday, October 7, 2022 8:48 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Change History of linux commands
> 
> On 2022-10-07 17:25+0200 n952162 <n952162@web.de> 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