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Cc: Edwin Shao <eshao@ring0.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Port of "service" command
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Kevin Downey wrote:
> I have a similar shell function I am rather fond of:
> 
> rc(){
>     find /etc/rc.d/"$1" /usr/local/etc/rc.d/"$1" -exec sudo {} `echo
> "$*"|cut -f 2- -d \ ` \;
> }

Wow, that's painful. :) The only reason you don't notice how painful
is because those two directories have only a few files. Much much more
efficient would be something like:

rc () {
	local script=$1
	shift

	if [ -x "/etc/rc.d/$script" ]; then
		/etc/rc.d/$script $*
	elif [ -x "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/$script" ]; then
		/usr/local/etc/rc.d/$script $*
	else
		echo "$script does not exist in /etc/rc.d or"
		echo "/usr/local/etc/rc.d"
		return 1
	fi
}


hth,

Doug

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