Robert P. J. Day wrote: > as part of a crash course in teaching some folks scripting this last > week, i grabbed a random FC6 script and walked through it with them. > i chose /sbin/service since it's a nice example of several scripting > features in a single place, but that script does have some strange > code in it. > > first, as an exercise for the reader, what is so amusing about > *this* snippet of script: > > > case "${1}" in > --help | -h | --h* ) > > > also, based on the structure of the main argument processing loop, > you can invoke service in some weird ways: > > $ service httpd --version > service ver. 0.91 > > where you can see that the first argument of service name "httpd" is > superseded by "--version". is that by design? just curious. > > rday > I would think it is. I believe that is standard behavior for most of the commands. If you have the --version argument, it displays the version information and exits. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list