On 19 Dec 2012 19:37, "Garrett Cooper" <yaneg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Ian Lepore > <free...@damnhippie.dyndns.org> wrote: > > ... > > > Instead of running sysctl a bunch of times, how about something > > conceptually similar to > > > > cat /etc/sysctl.d/* /etc/sysctl.conf | sysctl -f - > > > > Along with this (untested) patch to make sysctl understand "-f -". > > > > Hmmm, is /dev/stdin available as early as sysctl.conf runs? If not, the > > attached patch isn't going to work. > > Why not just make sysctl understand multiple -f options? You're > probably going to run into more problems parsing from /dev/stdin and > it's going to obfuscate things a lot dealing with which file came > last, feeding back diagnostic info, etc. > Please don't "linuxise" this tool.
I seem to recall cpio being around a lot before Linux... Our sh also accepts piped scripts. It's useful. ssh host cat file | sysctl -f - Chris _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
