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03-10-2008

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Shell Script Dependency/Tracer

Hello All,

We have a very old system at hand in which there are hundreds of shell scripts that use other shell scripts, all on the same server. There are several that are not used at all as well. In short, it's an unmanaged system thats been lying around for many years, and it needs to be cleaned up.

One of the ways I've been thinking of is to build a script that shows the plan of execution, given a seed script. For example, if a script A calls B and C and B calls M and N, then the given a seed of A, the script produces something like:

A
++B
++++M
++++N
++C

The intent of course is to identify which scripts are in use, and which ones are not.

Alternatively, I have considered checking the access timestamp using the -a option of ls to identify the script not being used for a long time. However, it does not give me the results I need.

Of course, I welcome other solutions to this problem and your experience if you've faced similar situations.

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service(8)						      System Manager's Manual							service(8)

NAME

       service - run a System V init script

SYNOPSIS

       service SCRIPT COMMAND [OPTIONS]

       service --status-all

       service --help | -h | --version

DESCRIPTION

       service runs a System V init script in as predictable environment as possible, removing most environment variables and with current working
       directory set to /.

       The SCRIPT parameter specifies a System V init script, located in /etc/init.d/SCRIPT.  The  supported  values  of  COMMAND  depend  on  the
       invoked	script,  service  passes  COMMAND and OPTIONS it to the init script unmodified.  All scripts should support at least the start and
       stop commands.  As a special case, if COMMAND is --full-restart, the script is run twice, first with the stop command, then with the  start
       command.

       service --status-all runs all init scripts, in alphabetical order, with the status command.

EXIT CODES

       service calls the init script and returns the status returned by it.

FILES

       /etc/init.d
	      The directory containing System V init scripts.

ENVIRONMENT

       LANG, TERM
	      The only environment variables passed to the init scripts.

SEE ALSO

       /etc/init.d/skeleton,
       update-rc.d(8),
       init(8),
       invoke-rc.d(8).

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