Comment by ninkendo
1 year ago
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs
1 year ago
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs
I'm not getting the same results for ed?
Clearly it grew a lot in size since 1929. It doesn’t waste nearly that much space on my timex sinclair.
(To explain and thus ruin the joke, https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html)
Alternative reply:
Is only 24 bytes.
But your emacs is still 5.89824 * 10^37 bytes in size like parent commenter, right?
I spent a few minutes trying to work out your pipeline. I think this is easier