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		telemachos on April 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Unix Tree First, what silentbicycle said. Second, the source code of coreutils is readily available[1] (pretty much by definition), but this material is probably not otherwise easy to find. (I may be wrong about that, but I certainly wouldn't have known where to look.) [1] For example: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src

silentbicycle on April 6, 2011 [–]

Right. If that code had been easy to find, _Lion's Commentary on Unix_ wouldn't have been such a big deal.

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