Viewing Unix command source code

[plastick]

How do I view the source code for a specific Unix command such as grep or sort?

 

[plastick]

nevermind. im a idiot

 

[AFB]

How?

 

[Nothinman]

Download it and open it in an editor. On Debian every package has a source package that the autobuilders use for creating the packages automatically, to get the source package just type 'apt-get source package-name'.