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andrey@kodiak ~ $ ls -l /bin/cat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30132 Jul 5 01:53 /bin/cat andrey@kodiak ~ $ ls -l /bin/ed -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39580 Jul 5 01:58 /bin/ed
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!
Posted Aug 27, 2008 5:03 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
... ah, 34Kb of .text and the rest is assorted rubbish like a debuglink section, EH frame data, and so on. Much of it is padding.
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.
Posted Aug 27, 2008 7:21 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
I still have a little game of hunt-the-fat-cat to play.
(size -A, a GNU extension, gives a much more detailed breakdown.)
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