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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: Introducing a poweroff(8) command
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On 2004-08-23 14:22, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> wrote:
> This whole thread seems ridiculous to me.  Why can't it be done with a
> simple shell script?

To avoid having to reimplement the command line parsing of reboot for
the `-k kernel' for example.