Wow. This is the first time I've ever heard zsh described as `small' and `beautiful'. (FWIW, I don't think I'd describe bash that way, either, no matter how drunk I was.)

I'd say that bash and zsh are of comparable size. The current development version of bash-2.03, dynamically linked against shared readline and history libraries, is:

nike.ins.cwru.edu(2)$ size bash text data bss dec hex 311296 12288 14048 337632 526e0 nike.ins.cwru.edu(2)$ ldd bash bash: -lreadline.4 => /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.4.0 (0x8069000) -lhistory.4 => /usr/local/lib/libhistory.so.4.0 (0x808a000) -ltermcap.2 => /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2.1 (0x808f000) -lc.3 => /usr/lib/libc.so.3.0 (0x8093000)

A freshly-built zsh-3.1.4 on the same machine is:

nike.ins.cwru.edu(2)$ size /usr/local/build/shells/zsh-3.1.4/Src/zsh text data bss dec hex 348160 24576 24136 396872 60e48 nike.ins.cwru.edu(2)$ ldd /usr/local/build/shells/zsh-3.1.4/Src/zsh /usr/local/build/shells/zsh-3.1.4/Src/zsh: -ltermcap.2 => /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2.1 (0x8072000) -lc.3 => /usr/lib/libc.so.3.0 (0x8076000)

Bash-2.02 (the currently-released version) is:

nike.ins.cwru.edu(2)$ size ../bash-2.02/bash text data bss dec hex 389120 24576 6740 420436 66a54 nike.ins.cwru.edu(2)$ ldd ../bash-2.02/bash ../bash-2.02/bash: -ltermcap.2 => /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2.1 (0x807c000) -lc.3 => /usr/lib/libc.so.3.0 (0x8080000)

For grins, bash-2.01.1 was:

nike.ins.cwru.edu(2)$ /bin/bash --version GNU bash, version 2.01.1(1)-release (i386-pc-freebsd2.2.5) Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. nike.ins.cwru.edu(2)$ size /bin/bash text data bss dec hex 364544 24576 5060 394180 603c4 nike.ins.cwru.edu(2)$ ldd /bin/bash /bin/bash: -ltermcap.2 => /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2.1 (0x8076000) -lc.3 => /usr/lib/libc.so.3.0 (0x807a000)

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