Where is best place to find sources of standard linux command line tools?
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Into: I like learning by reading sources. But it's tiring of searching them across internet splited on many many different project sites. I'd love to see **central browsable** repo with sources of many many apps in one place.
- When someone want to find documentation of some Linux tool, best
place is :
man toolname
.
- When I want to browse Linux sources "on-demand" I can always jump to
: [Linux Cross Reference](http://lxr.free-electrons.com/) .
- When I want to find most common staff, I can find all sources in
[Coreutils](http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/) .
- When I want to check how to build something, I can (for example) jump
into http://www.archlinux.org/packages/ , check it's pkgbuild.
Is there any repo that holds sources of most of tools in one place ?
- just like man
holds documentation or [Linux Cross Reference](http://lxr.free-electrons.com/) kernel sources.
I mean something for "rapid" "on-demand" checking how stuff is implemented. (Yes, I know google -> but I am tired of routine: 1. searching project site 2. browsing repo or even worse -> checking out it's repo 3. deleting when finished)
**REMARK:**
I've stressed out, I'd like to check tools : rapidly, fast, on-demand.
It means: I don't want to install whole app with it's sources just to take a look into it's sources. (btw. web resource is preferable, so I could check sources from many computers - I do not have admin on all of them)
Asked by Grzegorz Wierzowiecki
(14740 rep)
Jun 8, 2012, 09:20 PM
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