mk — Remake the Binary System and Commands from Source Code

Description

All source code for the UNIX system is distributed in the directory /usr/src. The directory tree rooted at /usr/src includes source code for the operating system, libraries, commands, and miscellaneous data files as needed for the system and procedures to transform this source code into an executable system.

Within the /usr/src directory are the cmd, lib, uts, head, and stand directories, as well as commands to remake the parts of the system found under each of these subdirectories. These commands are named :mk and :mkdir where the dir argument is the name of the directory to be recreated. Each of these :mkdir commands rebuilds all or part of the directory it is responsible ...

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