Re: Need bash-programmer for file-rc
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 10:04:29AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> >
> > > I'm the maintainer of the file-rc package. File-rc is a replacement
> > > for the old /etc/rc?.d system. It manages the startup scripts in one
> > > single file /etc/runlevel.conf.
> > >
> > > This package contains a replacement for update-rc.d. In order to
> > > increase speed it is written in bash and not in perl. Unfortunately
> > > the original update-rc.d was improved and so they're not completely
> > > compatible.
> > >
> > > I'm mostly talking about constructs like
> > >
> > > update-rc.d netbase start 20 0 1 2 . start 10 S . stop 90 4 5 6 .
> >
> > i think you're mistaken that bash will be faster than perl for this.
> >
> > the overhead of executing sed (and/or awk and/or perl) numerous times to
>
> No sed
> No awk
> No cut
> No what else?
>
> ONLY bash. If you know bash you know how to write scripts that make
> only use of bash's features.
>
> I'm sorry but I have to object, it is n times faster that a similar
> script in e.g. perl.
Don't worry. I already have the basic command parser working. There is a new
option, -d|--debug, for debugging purposes, and the new construct above is
also parsed correctly.
I am rewriting the entire script to conform to my programming style. I don't
know if the old version allowed inplace changes, but mine will.
Adam.
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