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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Change History of linux commands
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 11:07:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a298644d-c7e4-af07-0a10-ef89905be4f4@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y0BSnqBr95A1i8ON@ca.inter.net>

On 10/7/22 10:23 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
> There's the Wayback Machine, which tries to archive all I/net pages ever.

Sadly, there are a lot of pages that the Wayback Machine a.k.a. The 
Internet Archive doesn't have archived.  TIA / WM is a best effort 
system and is a lot better than not having anything at all.

> I've never used it, but it should have copies of man pages going back, 
> which would allow you to reconstruct the history of the commands.

I don't think that searching the internet for old copies of man pages is 
going to be as productive as one might hope.  First there's the SysV vs 
BSD lineage to account for.  Second there's all the other things that 
don't fall in the SysV / BSD camps, mostly older.

I'd suggest inquiring on the TUHS or COFF mailing lists for pointers to 
history of various commands.  You may very well be pointed to archived 
man pages.  But you'll also have comments from people who maintained 
commands and possibly added the option that you're most interested in.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die


      reply	other threads:[~2022-10-07 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-07 14:25 [gentoo-user] Change History of linux commands n952162
2022-10-07 14:29 ` [gentoo-user] [RESOLVED] " n952162
2022-10-07 18:27   ` Alan J. Wylie
2022-10-07 14:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Taylor
2022-10-07 15:25   ` n952162
2022-10-07 15:47     ` tastytea
2022-10-07 15:55       ` n952162
2022-10-07 15:57       ` Michael Orlitzky
2022-10-07 15:57       ` Laurence Perkins
2022-10-07 16:31       ` Matt Connell
2022-10-07 17:04         ` Grant Taylor
2022-10-07 17:10           ` Matt Connell
2022-10-07 17:39             ` Grant Taylor
2022-10-07 17:24         ` Dale
2022-10-09 15:59       ` Róbert Čerňanský
2022-10-07 16:23     ` Philip Webb
2022-10-07 17:07       ` Grant Taylor [this message]

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