On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 13:17 +0200, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: > 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
Oops. Misread that. > > $ 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'. Bleh, bites me everytime. Thanks! -- Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer
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