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Date:      Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:22:32 +0100
From:      Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Stefan Farfeleder <stefanf@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.subr src/share/man/man8 rc.subr.8
Message-ID:  <1150888952.3467.21.camel@mayday.esat.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060621111716.GI846@wombat.fafoe.narf.at>
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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:
> >=20
> > Then I'm not sure what script would benefit from this function. Can you
> > point me to an example?
> >=20
> > > > I don't have a particular feeling against your function but it uses
> > > > commands that may not be available early enough (getopt, egrep). Wh=
ile
> > > > it's easy to remove the getopt dependency (see rc.d/mdconfig), it's=
 not
> > > > the case for egrep.
> > >=20
> > > 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.
>=20
> true and false are builtins for /bin/sh.
>=20
> >=20
> > Still, with /bin/sh, getopt isn't a builtin:
>=20
> getopt !=3D getopts

Oops. Misread that.

> > $ sh -c 'which getopt'
> > /usr/bin/getopt
>=20
> /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!

--=20
Florent Thoumie
flz@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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