busybox, a popular package on small distros, which provides a lot of standard unix commands,does much the same thing.
I've seen a similar thing done in a shell program, it was a big case type statement on $0 ($0 returns the name of the program as typed at the command line) On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 17:21, Guy Steven wrote: > > > inapplicable, and vi is almost compulsory). But, its fast, has a great > > vi should be compulsory whatever the OS. > > On the topic of vi, don't you just love the way vi/view/ed etc use hard > links to dictate the way the program operates. From memory there are 5 > different programs that behave differently, which are in fact just hard > links to the one executable. The program examines the name by which it was > called and determines its behaviour. > > >
