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| -rwxr-xr-x | bin/slackware-sample.sh | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/bin/slackware-sample.sh b/bin/slackware-sample.sh index 3eb4818..066c520 100755 --- a/bin/slackware-sample.sh +++ b/bin/slackware-sample.sh @@ -18,10 +18,15 @@ trap 'rm -f "$TMP"' EXIT VERSION=$(cat /etc/slackware-version 2>/dev/null || echo unknown) -# The TRAILING SLASH is load-bearing. /var/log/packages is a symlink to -# /var/lib/pkgtools/packages, and `ls -1 /var/log/packages` lists the link -# itself: one entry. With the slash it lists the target's contents, which on -# this machine is some 2800 packages. Do not remove it as cosmetic. +# /var/log/packages is a symlink to /var/lib/pkgtools/packages. GNU ls follows +# it either way, so the trailing slash is belt and braces rather than the load +# bearing part; what would break this is adding -d, which lists the link itself +# and reports one package. +# +# The real trap is `ls` being aliased: the user's shell aliases it to `ls -lh`, +# and a long-format listing counts a "total" header line as a package. This +# script is not interactive so aliases do not apply, but do not move this +# counting into anything that is. PACKAGES=$(ls -1 /var/log/packages/ 2>/dev/null | wc -l) # Epochs, never formatted dates. The shell function this replaces rebuilds a |