On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:05:09PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote: > > Then I'm not sure what script would benefit from this function. Can you > point me to an example? > > > > I don't have a particular feeling against your function but it uses > > > commands that may not be available early enough (getopt, egrep). While > > > it's easy to remove the getopt dependency (see rc.d/mdconfig), it's not > > > the case for egrep. > > > > It's POSIX getopts, which ought to be a shell built-it by its design. > > egrep is used with -e only, one can avoid using it if egrep isn't > > available yet. The only issue is true and false, I was sure they > > were in /bin, but it can be fixed easily.
true and false are builtins for /bin/sh. > > Still, with /bin/sh, getopt isn't a builtin: getopt != getopts > $ sh -c 'which getopt' > /usr/bin/getopt /bin/sh doesn't have a which builtin, so you are executing /usr/bin/which which just looks in $PATH. Try 'type getopts'. Stefan _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
