Re:The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009)
by jzwinck on Saturday August 21, 2021 @07:19PM
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Instead of a symlink to true you could have made an empty script.
Re:The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009)
by michaelt on Saturday August 21, 2021 @07:42PM
(#28261615)
And violate AT&T's copyright? Perish the thought!
Re:The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009)
by viseztrance on Saturday August 21, 2021 @08:25PM
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Well the symlink command was also easier to share with others having the same issue, whereas a one liner that creates an executable script which returns 0 is less ideal.
Re:The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009)
by cmeacham98 on Saturday August 21, 2021 @08:38PM
(#28261911)
An empty script returns 0 by default, thus `touch /path/to/missing/library` is a sufficient (and shorter!) one-liner fix to this problem.
Re:The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009)
by viseztrance on Saturday August 21, 2021 @08:43PM
(#28261930)
I know, but you still have to make it executable, hence it's not as convenient.
And on top of this, an unlink is less error prone than a rm -f.
This make it sound like this is useless, but I disagree. For example, recently I had some games crash because they couldn't find pulseaudio, and making a symlink from pulseaudio to /bin/true fixed my issue (and yes, they had sound). So there are certainly legitimate uses for it.