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On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:30:44 -0700
Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> 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
> }

This kind of thing is already implemented by the
sysutils/bsdadminscripts port.