How do I get the source code of command "ping" on my computer?

[douwenke]

Hi,

I'm a new user of Linux, now I have a problem as follows:
(1) In which way can I get the source code of command "ping" from my OS(Ubuntu9)?
(2) Please answer it in detail, for that I just have little experience in using Linux.
(3) Sorry about my poor English spoken.

Thanks a lot.

douwenke

[RobinVossen]

Step1. Open your browser. [ Chromium, Google Chrome, Firefox, Konqurer etc ]
Step2. Point it to http://git.busybox.net/busybox/plain/networking/ping.c
Step3. Read the SourceCode.

Hope that helped.

Cheers,
Robin

[douwenke]

That's rellay what I want.
Thanks very much.

Douwenke

[Rubberman]

Remember, if you use the busybox source, you need to provide attribution of their copyrights in your source code, and make any changes you made available to others if they want them, assuming you are using this for something other than a personal "experiment". Open Source does not mean No License...

[tyho]

You can also fetch source files with

apt-get source <package>

For ping, it would be

apt-get source inetutils

or

apt-get source iputils

(ping is not a package by itself but provided by those packages)