Where i can get source code of the 'cp' command?

chaits · 02-03-2004, 09:55 PM

Hi members!

I need the source code of the 'cp' & 'mv' commands for my project work.(i am a student of Engineering.) where can i get it?
any advice,
thanking in advance,
Chaits.

trickykid · 02-03-2004, 10:13 PM

I'd probably suggest to look at www.gnu.org

chaits · 02-03-2004, 11:00 PM

Hi!
i tried that site.(after all, that was the most logical thing to do!) but i couldn't get anything there.
is there any other way? somebody told me abt binutils. but i didn't find it useful.
regards,
chaits.

defubar · 02-03-2004, 11:48 PM

lol i'm tired and completely misunderstood the question, removed my post ;o

defubar · 02-04-2004, 12:06 AM

I believe what you want is in here:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.gz

In the /src directory after extracting it.

newbie to linux · 11-22-2010, 09:50 PM

On Debian based systems apt-get can retrieve the code via this command:

Code:

apt-get source package-name

apt will save the source to the current directory see:

Code:

man apt-get

for more information.