Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 03:56:46 +0200 From: System Daemon <daemon@bee.cs.kiev.ua> Message-ID: <199512060156.DAA04929@bee.cs.kiev.ua>
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Bob Willcox (bob@luke.pmr.com) wrote:
> Thanks, though I had already written a similar program per a
> suggestion from Julian Elischer. Seems that SysV and AIX both
> have this program and I was (wrongly) thinking that something
> like it existed in FreeBSD.
actually, it does. put this into /sbin/unlink:
#!/bin/sh
perl -U -le 'unlink(shift) while scalar @ARGV' ${1+"$@"}
I vote for putting a static copy of perl 5 into /bin.
It can do (almost) everything, and you can provide a handful of commands there.
see:
text data bss dec hex
282624 16384 41584 340592 53270 /bin/sh
356352 32768 3728 392848 5fe90 miniperl
360448 32768 3752 396968 60ea8 perl
471040 36864 55452 563356 8989c staticminiperl
- this one without any extensions, 500K when stripped.
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