Re: pfile start script

--On Tuesday, July 06, 2004 12:05 AM +1000 Darren Reed
<darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> wrote:

> In some email I received from Hans Werner Strube, sie wrote:
>> Carson Gaspar wrote:
>> > Or you can do it in (POSIX) shell:
>> >
>> > carson:gandalf 0 $ OIFS="${IFS}" IFS="${IFS}:"; ls hostname.* | while
>> > read intf alias; do if [ -z "${alias}" ]; then echo $intf; fi; done;
>> > IFS="${OIFS}"
>> > hostname.foo0
>>
>> Wouldn't the following simplification of S10pfil be sufficient?
>
> No. sed is in /usr/bin and /usr may not be mounted when S10pfil runs.

Which is why my example was in shell. And it avoids a fork/exec (always a
good thing to try and do).

--
Carson