oddities in /sbin/service

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sun Nov 19 01:02:51 UTC 2006


On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 01:21:18PM -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> >   first, as an exercise for the reader, what is so amusing about
> > *this* snippet of script:
> >     case "${1}" in
> >       --help | -h | --h* )
> As standard syntax for the case statement I don't see anything funny.
> Please enlighten us.

It's hilariously self-documenting?


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