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Date:      Wed, 6 Dec 1995 03:56:46 +0200
From:      System Daemon <daemon@bee.cs.kiev.ua>
Message-ID:  <199512060156.DAA04929@bee.cs.kiev.ua>

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Bob Willcox (bob@luke.pmr.com) wrote:
> Thanks, though I had already written a similar program per a
> suggestion from Julian Elischer.  Seems that SysV and AIX both
> have this program and I was (wrongly) thinking that something 
> like it existed in FreeBSD.

actually, it does.  put this into /sbin/unlink:

#!/bin/sh
perl -U -le 'unlink(shift) while scalar @ARGV' ${1+"$@"}

I vote for putting a static copy of perl 5 into /bin. 
It can do (almost) everything, and you can provide a handful of commands there.

see:

text    data    bss     dec     hex
282624  16384   41584   340592  53270   /bin/sh
356352  32768   3728    392848  5fe90   miniperl
360448  32768   3752    396968  60ea8   perl
471040  36864   55452   563356  8989c   staticminiperl
	- this one without any extensions, 500K when stripped.

--
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                                   - Kris Kristofferson & Janis Joplin -



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