Re: missing way to extract data out of data

[Andreas Schwab]

On Mär 22 2021, Dale R. Worley wrote:

> Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> writes:
>> Partly true.  seq(1) is a Linux thing, and was never part of any
>> tradition, until Linux people started doing it.
>
> Huh.  I started with Ultrix, and then SunOS, but don't remember learning
> seq at a later date.

According to <https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=seq>, seq
appeared in Version 8 AT&T UNIX.

> I've never tracked down why, but the Perl executable is a lot smaller
> than the Bash executable.

Is it?

$ size /usr/bin/perl /bin/bash
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
2068661   27364     648 2096673  1ffe21 /usr/bin/perl
1056850   22188   61040 1140078  11656e /bin/bash

Of course, a lot of perl is part of loadable modules.

Andreas.

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