On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Chris Palmer <ch...@noncombatant.org> wrote: > Anselm R Garbe writes: > >> Stali's grep is smaller than your bloated 78kb dynamic executable, see >> attached. It's 63kb actually and runs on all x86 linux platforms. > > An awk script equivalent to grep is at least one order of magnitude smaller, > and possibly two.
p...@airwaves:~$ size `which awk` text data bss dec hex filename 313483 1392 20584 335459 51e63 /usr/bin/awk