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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Small wrapper for systemctl which provides some shortcuts.
+
+# Copyright (C) 2015 Simon Ruderich
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+set -eu
+
+
+args=( )
+found=
+for arg; do
+ # This heuristic replaces the first occurrence of a shortcut with its
+ # expansion. This is not perfect (e.g. `systemctl status s` would result
+ # in `systemctl status status`) but works even when options are used and
+ # doesn't require us to duplicate systemctl's parsing of command line
+ # arguments.
+ if [[ -z $found ]]; then
+ found=1
+ case "$arg" in
+ c) arg=cat ;;
+ d) arg=disable ;;
+ e) arg=enable ;;
+ k) arg=kill ;;
+ m) arg=mask ;;
+ r) arg=restart ;;
+ rl) arg=reload ;;
+ s) arg=status ;;
+ sa) arg=start ;;
+ so) arg=stop ;;
+ u) arg=unmask ;;
+ # No match, try it again for the next parameter.
+ *) found= ;;
+ esac
+ fi
+ args+=( "$arg" )
+done
+
+set +u # empty $args causes an error, I think this is a bug in bash
+exec systemctl "${args[@]}"