On Sat, 06 Jul 2019 09:33:15 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Well, I was wondering how it could be done and like solving the
> puzzle; keeps my hand in.
A good habit, for sure.
> The university used to have staff and students interested in Unix
> and ran Solaris or a descendant so there could be
Hi Patrick,
> > For a one-off quick task, automating it would be more tedious.
>
> But you did it anyway, even though you didn't need the results!
Well, I was wondering how it could be done and like solving the puzzle;
keeps my hand in. What I did was O(n²) though, where n is the number of
On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 12:14:03 +0100, Patrick Wigmore wrote:
> the short description of size(1) does not make any mention of object
> files:
>
> $ man -f size
> size (1) - list section sizes and total size.
On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 13:33:21 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> This is a
On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 13:33:21 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> For a one-off quick task, automating it would be more tedious.
But you did it anyway, even though you didn't need the results!
(Don't change, your code snippets are great.)
> I learnt by reading books. Pre-Internet. The authors back
You reminded me that a few days ago I listed the files in a core package on
a server (looking for a missing utility) and saw a few things in the list
that I didn't immediately recognise. I thought at the time, "That would be
a good way to learn about utilities that I don't know exist".
The
On Fri, Jul 05 at 12:14, Patrick Wigmore wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jul 2019 10:37:35 +0100, Bob Dunlop wrote:
> > nvi
> >textdata bss dec hex filename
> > 270612048 256 2936572b5 /usr/bin/nvi
> > 442019 18688 144 460851 70833 /usr/lib64/libvi.so.0
> >
Hi Patrick,
> but what method did you use to produce the list of files, excluding
> common operating system libraries?
I expect Bob used ldd(1) and then removed common ones by hand, knowing
what they were likely to be. For a one-off quick task, automating it
would be more tedious.
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