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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Cleaning up init</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<I>Thu Jan 31 22:59:51 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Dan Fandrich at 31/01/13 14:54 did gyre and gimble:
><i> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:00:36AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
</I>>><i> While I'm pretty sure no such init script exists and would break
</I>>><i> in other ways, it's still a valid point. I've changed it to "{}"
</I>>><i> now.
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</I>><i> True, but if we haven't told our users what their symbolic links
</I>><i> should look like, we can't be going about deleting the wrong files.
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> Anyone else have any comments on this?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The revised solution instead breaks when the link contains double
</I>><i> quotes. How about this instead:
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</I>><i> find -L find /etc/rc.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7}.d -type l -exec rm -f {}
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Nice trick! -L to follow links to what they point at then -type -l to
only show symlinks which, thanks to the -L, can only be broken symlinks.
The 2nd "find" is obviously a typo, but very nice trick overall :)
Cheers
Col
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