On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:18:04AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Yar Tikhiy wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I've had to use /rescue recently and felt lack of a few basic tools > >in it, namely pgrep(1), head(1), tail(1), tee(1), and a text filter, > >e.g., sed(1). Well, in fact most functionality of pgrep(1), head(1), > >tail(1), and even tee(1) can be emulated if one has sed(1), but the > >tools are so tiny and convenient that it's a pity not to have them > >all handy during hard times. > > > >In addition, there are chflags and chmod in /rescue, but there's > >no chown in it, so the toolset is a bit incomplete. > > Oh, my. chown was definitely an oversight. That > should have been in there. > > My opinions: > * head, tail, and tee are no-brainers; just do it. > * sed would be a nice addition. (I atttempted to > fit 'vi' in there, but curses is rather finicky; > 'sed' would be more useful.)
Thank you for supporting my idea! > * I personally would not add pgrep/pkill because I > never use them. They can be handy if you find yourself with a botched system still in multi-user mode and want to fix the things w/o dropping to single-user mode. Now there are ps(1) and kill(1) in rescue, which together with sed(1) can do the same job, but pgrep/pkill is much more convenient. Another option can be killall(1), but pkill(1) has almost superseded it because it is more widely adopted and has richer features without code bloat. -- Yar _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
