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From: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org>
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Subject: Re: Source code for user utilities
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In <5007e1a40701152213l15f72b02sd6d15c8442958e91@mail.gmail.com>, Pranav Sawargaonkar <pranav.sawargaonkar@gmail.com> typed:
> Hi
> Can any one tell me from where i can get source code of user level utilities
> (eg. ls, top etc.)

Look in /usr/src on a FreeBSD system: /usr/src/bin, /usr/src/usr.bin,
etc.

Or try "whereis <command>":

bhuda% whereis ls
ls: /bin/ls /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz /usr/src/bin/ls

> Does FreeBSD also uses coreutils  for  these  user  utilities  like  linux
> does ?

No.

	<mike

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