From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DAA79158094 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2022 17:08:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46D77E097E; Fri, 7 Oct 2022 17:08:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net [IPv6:2600:3c00:e000:1e9::8849]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DE6AEE095A for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2022 17:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Contact-TNet-Consulting-Abuse-for-assistance by tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-3) with ESMTPSA id 297H87F5011820 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2022 12:08:08 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Change History of linux commands To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1814ed0b-976a-a552-bac0-9da5f8312ee1@web.de> <137db192-75a9-56cd-04d8-c3164b62db1d@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> From: Grant Taylor Organization: TNet Consulting Message-ID: Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 11:07:21 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1bc54ef7-4e3f-4b9c-901b-8ea9acec9d08 X-Archives-Hash: 97c62f2df9a96f93892746be9e2fa9ec 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