Kyle R . Burton on Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:40:28 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] options in shell scripts


> PS...
> 
> You'll probably want to expand my # parse $1 by dealing with both $1
> and $2; if you do that, then you should shift 2 instead of shifting
> 1 (but only do the shift 2 on the flags that take arguments, of
> course).


There is also getopt(1), which is specificly for use in shell scripts.
It's based on getopt(3) which, IIRC, it used by about 90% of the common
unix utilities.



Kyle


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