The emperor's New Inittab

[Keith Roberts]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, John Summerfield wrote:

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> From: John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
> Subject: Re: The emperor's New Inittab
> 
> Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
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>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>> The quick way to get an answer is:
>>> find /etc -type f -exec grep -l {} \;
>>> and examine files listed.
>> 
>> Surely you want a pattern in there somewhere?
>> 
>> Without one, that command never terminates - grep will sit there
>> interpreting the value of {} as a pattern and trying to read from 
>> stdin:
>> 
>> $ find /etc -type f -exec grep -l {} \; &
>> 
>> $ ps ax | grep grep
>>  1849 pts/48   S+     0:00 find /etc -type f -exec grep -l {} ;
>>  1850 pts/48   S+     0:00 grep -l /etc/motd
>> 
>> Been doing that for a while now...
>> 
>> Bryn.
>
> One hopes Chuck (and others) can read a man page:-) I gave a skeleton for 
> finding files and doing something with them.

Well if one was to use something like:

# pinfo manpage

then there is not a problem.

# info manpage

and I'd not put any money on it.

Regards,

Keith ;)

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