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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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Subject: Re: ugliness in rc.* scripts
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On (2002/08/21 09:52), M. Warner Losh wrote:

> Why not just have
> 
>     case -i ${some_config_variable} in
> 
> to do the case folding.  This would be a backwards compatible extension:

I don't think the ugliness involved in the rc scripts justifies any of
the proposed hack-arounds yet.

And if you _were_ going to hack around, you'd want to introduce a form
of parameter expansion that did lower-case transliteration for you, e.g.

	${parameter:lc}

Much more useful, but non-portable.

But I digress.  I don't think the ugliness is ugly enough.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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