Re: oddities in /sbin/service

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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 superseded by "--version".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
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