diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/functions b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/functions
index 689fd32b39..ac99e112c7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/functions
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/functions
@@ -4,11 +4,12 @@
 #               shell scripts in the /etc/init.d directory.
 #
 
-machine_id() {		# return the machine ID
-    awk 'BEGIN { FS=": " } /Hardware/ { gsub(" ", "_", $2); print tolower($2) } ' </proc/cpuinfo
+machine_id() { # return the machine ID
+	awk 'BEGIN { FS=": " } /Hardware/ \
+		{ gsub(" ", "_", $2); print tolower($2) } ' </proc/cpuinfo
 }
 
-killproc() {		# kill the named process(es)
-    pid=`/bin/pidof $1`
-    [ "$pid" != "" ] && kill $pid
+killproc() { # kill the named process(es)
+	pid=`/bin/pidof $1`
+	[ "$pid" != "" ] && kill $pid
 }