download source code on Linux

[David Kelly]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:56:06AM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:08:08PM +0530, Onkar wrote:
> > But I am finding no files with extension .c or .h
> > [image: File:]generic.aa<ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE/kernels/generic.aa>
> > 1392
> [...]
> > what are these ??
> 
> Tarballs.
> 
> Grab ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.3-RELEASE/src/
> then to get the files out of, say, scontrib, do something like this:
> 
> % cat scontrib.* | tar -xvzf -

Chuck Swiger's post caused me to relook at mine. There are .inf files in
the mix which will cause tar a bit of heartache above. This would be
better:

% cat scontrib.[ab]* | tar -xvzf -

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