viewing command coding.
 

I want to get into bash programming and wanted to know if there was a way from the terminal that i coulld view the coding of commands like cp. ls, etc to see how they work for examples.

command --help or man help usually give enough without having to see the actual coding.

i'd be interested in seeing the actual functions and what not used.

I've been interested in this as well, I guess the best way to start is by getting the source to the coreutils package.

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ For info.

http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/coreutils...-5.2.1.tar.bz2 For the bzipped source.

This package has things like rm, ls, chown, chmod etc... Unzip it and have fun exploring :D. I haven't gotten around to wading through the source yet myself, but there is alot there to keep you occupied for a long time.

thanks that was what i was looking for