Where can I find the source code of Unix utilities?

linux gnu-coreutils
Al pacino picture Al pacino · Jun 25, 2009 · Viewed 16.1k times · Source

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

Answer

user25148 picture user25148 · Jun 25, 2009

On Debian and Ubuntu:

apt-get source coreutils

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

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