[PLUG] options in shell scripts

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

I feel I'm missing something obvious.

I want to be able to say

    foo --switch 1 --baz dog --bar a b c

and run foo with options switch == 1, baz == 2, bar set, and args a,
b, and c. Of course, options may not be specified or may be specified
in a different order.

I realized I've never written such a thing in sh. I could rewrite
in perl with Getopt::Long, but it's very much a shell thing I've got
here. Anyone have any suggestions?

Maybe I should just rewrite in perl.

-- 
 Jeff

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