Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 03/03/2017 02:23 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
Why would there be anyone else on my systems?
You never walk alone:
$ ps -ae -o uid | grep -v UID | sort -u | wc -l
10
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But those *are* 'me'... (18 of them). In many cases
I've forced processes to run as their own user&group instead of
nobody/nogroup as I wanted the separate trackability. I probably
pushed for at least a half a dozen of them back to my distro for better
security. So those are surrogates, or, "clones" if you will.... :-)
BTW, in regards to filenames starting w/'-' for example:
Eric Blake wrote:
On 03/02/2017 04:24 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
... I find the addition of "./" -- for interactive
use, to be *Visual Clutter*. I was hoping for a simple 'short-cut'
for interactive use to get rid of the visual clutter ...
And I find the exact opposite - lack of ./ is visual clutter, because
with a leading ./, I am guaranteed that it resolves to a filename ...
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You are guaranteed that is a filename if it is from the output
of a find command.
Since the behavior of not prepending "./" would only happen
in a non-POSIX defined case, there would be no place for such
usage in POSIX-compliant scripts.
It was meant to be used in an interactive form -- not in
a portable script.
So you can be *certain*, if 'find' outputs a filename
starting with '-', it's a filename, not a switch. AFAIK, find doesn't
echo out switches. If you are using it as input to another script,
use "." as a starting path to get *defined* behavior. Problem solved.
