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In a process the text region contains the executable code instruction. The size of the text can be displayed by means of the size(1) command.

$ size longtest text   data    bss     dec     hex 1728   368     352     2448    990

The text section can be disassembled by means of the objdump(1) command.

$ objdump -d longtest ... Disassembly of section .text: ...