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21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)Posted Aug 27, 2008 0:10 UTC (Wed) by leoc (subscriber, #39773)In reply to: 21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) by flewellyn Parent article: 21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) ed is too bloated
% cat file.txt (memorize contents of file) % cat - > file.txt (retype with changes where necessary)
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21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) Posted Aug 27, 2008 3:00 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Sorry, cat is larger than ed:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 56740 2008-07-12 21:00 /bin/cat
It's all those GNU features, y'know.
My cat is not bigger than my ed Posted Aug 27, 2008 3:15 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] me@mybox:~$ ls -l /bin/cat It would appear that my cat is smaller than my ed. (Interpret that as you may, but the output above is correct. I'm using Slackware 12.1 with the distro-provided cat and ed. Both binaries are 32-bit ELF LSB x86, stripped.)
My cat is not bigger than my ed Posted Aug 27, 2008 4:08 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
That's extremely small. I guess the cat isn't stock coreutils cat, but
something BSD, perhaps?
My cat is not bigger than my ed Posted Aug 27, 2008 4:38 UTC (Wed) by afalko (subscriber, #37028) [Link]
Yes, you are not alone. My cat is also not bigger than my ed:
andrey@kodiak ~ $ ls -l /bin/cat
I don't know about nix, but I feed by cat organic food. pr1268, you need to start feeding your cat more files :).
My cat is not bigger than my ed Posted Aug 27, 2008 4:45 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Hehe, I LOL'ed. But, Slackware's (ver. 12.1) cat is from the GNU Coreutils package. And, I promise, I have not fed the cat anything!
My cat is not bigger than my ed Posted Aug 27, 2008 5:03 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
I guess I need to hunt some bloat in my cat...
... ah, 34Kb of .text and the rest is assorted rubbish like a debuglink
However, my ed only has 28Kb of text!
FWIW size of ed and cat on Slackware 12.1 Posted Aug 27, 2008 5:26 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] me@mybox:~$ size $(which ed) text data bss dec hex filename 33862 1696 604 36162 8d42 /usr/bin/ed me@mybox:~$ size $(which cat) text data bss dec hex filename 15230 460 356 16046 3eae /usr/bin/cat Granted, size(1) will read through symlinks, and cat(1) in /usr/bin is symlinked to /bin/cat in Slackware 12.1.
FWIW size of ed and cat on Slackware 12.1 Posted Aug 27, 2008 7:21 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
nix@loki 32 /home/nix% size $(which ed)
text data bss dec hex filename 39263 1696 604 41563 a25b /usr/bin/ed nix@loki 33 /home/nix% size $(which cat) text data bss dec hex filename 44371 1984 0 46355 b513 /usr/bin/cat nix@loki 34 /home/nix% cat --version cat (GNU coreutils) 6.12 [...]
I still have a little game of hunt-the-fat-cat to play.
(size -A, a GNU extension, gives a much more detailed breakdown.)
My cat is not bigger than my ed Posted Aug 27, 2008 14:37 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]
> It would appear that my cat is smaller than my ed.
Perhaps you should put that in your .sig file. ;)
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