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n952162 <n952162@×××.de> writes: |
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> Am 07.10.22 um 16:25 schrieb n952162: |
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>> Can anybody tell me how I can look at the official change history of |
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>> linux commands? |
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>> For example, the test(1) command used to have a regular-expression |
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>> parser built in. No longer, and more surprising, there's no discussion |
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>> of its disappearance on the internet; that I can find, at any rate. |
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>> I'd to know when it disappeared and what discussions, by whom, preceded |
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>> that. |
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> Sorry, I'm thinking of the expr(1) command. |
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The man pages (and source code) of old versions of UNIX can be found at |
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https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl |
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e.g. ("man 1 expr" from Jan 1992) |
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https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V10/man/man1/expr.1 |
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For more human readable output |
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$ cd tmp |
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$ cat > oldman.1 |
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<copy and paste> |
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$ man ./oldman.1 |
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Alan J. Wylie https://www.wylie.me.uk/ |
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Dance like no-one's watching. / Encrypt like everyone is. |
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Security is inversely proportional to convenience |
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