On 05 Dec 1997 09:01:48 +0200, <jari(_dot_)aalto(_at_)poboxes(_dot_)com> wrote:
Have anyone looked at the binary sizes lately :-) I'm a real perl
[lover], but now I understand why I should use it with great care from
inside procmail.
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 131072 Aug 21 1996 /usr/bin/awk
-r-xr-xr-x 3 bin bin 245760 Jun 10 1996 /usr/bin/grep
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 262144 Jun 10 1996 /usr/bin/sed
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 544768 Jun 10 1996
/usr/contrib/bin/perl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root nms 822232 Aug 25 13:58
/opt/local/bin/perl5.00401
This is not very typical. BTW, I also find myself stumbling over the
stupid limitations of classic awk all the time, so you should at least
check the size of nawk and/or gawk in case you happen to need them,
too.
Here's the situation on an Alpha:
$ type -all grep sed awk gawk nawk perl | cut -d' ' -f3 | xargs ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 155648 Nov 16 1996 /usr/bin/awk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 221184 Nov 16 1996 /usr/bin/gawk
-rwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 32768 Nov 16 1996 /usr/bin/grep
-rwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 155648 Nov 16 1996 /usr/bin/nawk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 49152 Nov 16 1996 /usr/bin/sed
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 4 Sep 28 14:25 /usr/local/bin/awk ->
gawk
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root system 311296 Jan 27 1997 /usr/local/bin/gawk
-rwxr-xr-x 3 root system 1196032 Sep 14 1996 /usr/local/bin/perl
-rwxr-xr-x 2 sjpaavol system 958464 Nov 2 16:34
/usr/local/contrib/bin/perl
-rwxr-xr-x 3 reriksso system 114688 Oct 20 1996
/usr/local/contrib/gnu/bin/grep
You should expect to see a grep smaller than sed, which is smaller
than awk, which is +much+ smaller than Perl, on most systems.
Obviously, the GNU versions, while nice, are often rather obese; you
should perhaps not expect anything in particular about locally
installed or contributed versions. And it's worth noting for the
record that if Procmail is running on a dedicated mail host, it
probably doesn't even have the goodies installed, just the boring
standard versions.
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