It's because I get crazy when I have to type one milion times per day cd /etc/rc.d/--bla--bla-- or just execute the startup script with the absolute path which is even more exhaustive. 
### daemon - lists and starts scripts from /etc/rc.d
### may be useful under Slackware

use strict;

my $rc_dir = q|/etc/rc.d|;
my @coms   = grep {-f && -x} glob "$rc_dir/*";
my %coms;
my $com;


@coms =
        grep{/.{2,}/}
        map {s|.+/rc\.(.+?)\W*$|$1| and $_}
@coms;

$" = $/ and die "@coms", $/ unless @ARGV;

$com = shift;
@coms{@coms} = ();

exists $coms{$com} or die qx{"$rc_dir/rc.$com"},$/;

print for qx{"$rc_dir/rc.$com" "@ARGV"};

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__END__
#cp daemon.pl /usr/bin/daemon; chmod +x !$
#daemon sshd start (or restart or whatever args /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd script takes)


In reply to startup scripts under Slackware by sh1tn

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