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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:14:00 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        "Justin C. Sherrill" <jsherri1@rochester.rr.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: source to a command
Message-ID:  <14950.31640.969843.886561@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <86159251@toto.iv>

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Justin C. Sherrill <jsherri1@rochester.rr.com> types:
> If I want to find the source to a program that isn't in ports but in the
> base distribution (in this case, the 'script' command), where could I look?

Apologies for the previous half-finished messages - my fingers slipped
:-(.

Try whereis:

	$ whereis cat
	cat: /bin/cat /usr/share/man/man1/cat.1.gz /usr/src/bin/cat

So the source is almost certainly in /usr/src/bin/cat.

	<mike
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