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Hi all,

This is bit strange.. Can we see the content of any command? for example vi /bin/ls .. this is giving some unrecognizable code(i know this is compiled). is there any way to see the content of any command..

i can get a source code from net to see what actually ls command will do.. but my question is.. Is it possible to local system /bin/ls content..?

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Naa, until and unless you use disassemblers software. Getting source code is the best thing to view source code under Linux / BSD etc. /bin/ls and others are binary files which will be loaded by Linux loader (linker) such as /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 or /lib/ld-linux.so.2
All Linux programs are incomplete and require further linking at run time using ld-linux. This is does to save binary size.

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thanks for the inputs..

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