On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... > > also, based on the structure of the main argument processing loop, > > you can invoke service in some weird ways: > > > > $ service httpd --version > > service ver. 0.91 > > > > where you can see that the first argument of service name "httpd" is > > superseded by "--version". is that by design? just curious. > > > > rday > > > I would think it is. I believe that is standard behavior for most of > the commands. If you have the --version argument, it displays the > version information and exits. no. consider the differing output from the following invocations: $ ps aux $ ps --version $ ps aux --version it may be that the result of doing something like # service httpd status --version was deliberately designed that way, but it's certainly less than intuitive. in any event, the only point i was making was that, in using /sbin/service as a sample script to show some people how scripts work, even those people who had never seen a script before took a look at the logic of that utility and were thinking, "what the hell ..." rday
