self-deleting shell script

Question

I\'ve looked around for an answer to this one but couldn\'t find one.

I have written a simple script that does initial server settings and I\'d like it to remove/unlink

Answer 1

Why remove the script at all? As other have mentioned it means you have to keep a copy elsewhere.

A suggestion is to use a "firstboot" like approach. Simply create an empty file in e.g. /etc/sysconfig that triggers the execution of this script if it is present. Then remove that file at the end of the script.

Modify the script so it has the necessary chkconfig headers and place it in /etc/init.d/ so it is run at every boot.

That way you can rerun the script at a later time simply by recreating the trigger script.

Hope this helps.