Question

As I asked in the title, I’m looking for a script/command to find the correct directory (usually /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d/init.d).
Right now I’m using

    dirname `find / -name acpid 2> /dev/null | grep /etc/`

but sometimes I get more than one result (probably some of the results are link) . Any suggestion?

I’m using acpid because it is a script that should be present in almost every distribution that is not prehistoric. If someone has a suggestion for a better script, let me know, thanks 🙂

Answer 1

I believe that your approach is quite good as the location of the startup scripts is distro-dependable. Simply add -type f option to exclude links from your results.

INITDIR=`find / -type f -name acpid 2> /dev/null | grep /etc/`