how can I find wc command's source code?

[HolyJoe]

I want to view wc command's source code, how can I find the source?

[HolyJoe]

somebody know it?

[-Rick-]

Check the source of GNU's coreutils: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

[ifokkema]

The Debian/Ubuntu way of doing this:
- Find the executable.
- Find the package.
- Cd into a directory.
- Download the source directly.

  14:26:47 ifokkema@5-HKG-02-0098:~$ which wc
/usr/bin/wc
  14:26:56 ifokkema@5-HKG-02-0098:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/wc
coreutils: /usr/bin/wc
  14:27:12 ifokkema@5-HKG-02-0098:~$ cd src
  14:27:25 ifokkema@5-HKG-02-0098:src$ sudo apt-get source coreutils

If you get:

E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list

Then you must enable the deb-src lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

HTH

[HolyJoe]

Hi, ifokkema,
Very nice.

Thank you for you help!