[Mageia-dev] Cleaning up init

Dan Fandrich dan at coneharvesters.com
Wed Jan 30 23:49:23 CET 2013


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:19:46AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> find /etc/rc.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7}.d -type l -exec sh -c 'if [ ! -e {}
> ]; then rm -f {}; fi' \;
> 
> This does much the same job, but "find" is already used in multiple
> places so probably a better solution even if the command is more convoluted!
> 
> If anyone spots any issues with this, please shout.

This solution has a problem handling files with embedded spaces and
special shell characters. It could potentially be bad if run on a system
where a link such as "/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S01Super * Star Program" exists.

>>> Dan


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