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Bug#624795: linux-base: "$0" in linux-version help



On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 19:02 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Package: linux-base
> Version: 3.2
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
> 
> $ linux-version --help | head -n1
> Usage: $0 compare VERSION1 OP VERSION2
> 
> It should be "linux-version" instead of "$0".

That's weird; I really thought I had seen it working!

> diff --git a/bin/linux-version b/bin/linux-version
> --- a/bin/linux-version
> +++ b/bin/linux-version
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
>  
>  sub usage {
>      my $fh = shift;
> -    print $fh (<< 'EOT');
> +    print $fh (<< "EOT");
>  Usage: $0 compare VERSION1 OP VERSION2
>         $0 sort [--reverse] [VERSION1 VERSION2 ...]
>         $0 list [--paths]

Whoa, subtle.  Thanks.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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