On Mär 22 2021, Dale R. Worley wrote: > Greg Wooledge <g...@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. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."
