Source Code of unix utilities such as sort, uniq etc.

Question

Hi, Could anyone provide me with the pointers to source code for linux commands such as 'sort' , 'uniq' etc. many thanks.

Answer 1

On Debian and Ubuntu:

apt-get source coreutils

More generally: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/

Answer 2

Generally on rpm managed Linux distribution, for me to check which file belong to which package, I will use command like:

rpm -qf `which sort`

Answer 3

Try here: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

Answer 4

For sources much closer to the original UNIX toolset (and not the GNU rewrites),

The Heirloom Toolchest is a collection of standard Unix utilities.

Highlights are:

• Derived from original Unix material released as Open Source by Caldera and Sun.

Answer 5

From OpenSolaris. IMHO much cleaner code then GNU.