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bash getopts long

Tiago F2 answered on September 19, 2022 Popularity 6/10 Helpfulness 3/10

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#!/bin/bash
aflag=no
bflag=no
cargument=none

# options may be followed by one colon to indicate they have a required argument
if ! options=$(getopt -o abc: -l along,blong,clong: -- "$@")
then
    # something went wrong, getopt will put out an error message for us
    exit 1
fi

set -- $options

while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
    case $1 in
    -a|--along) aflag="yes" ;;
    -b|--blong) bflag="yes" ;;
    # for options with required arguments, an additional shift is required
    -c|--clong) cargument="$2" ; shift;;
    (--) shift; break;;
    (-*) echo "$0: error - unrecognized option $1" 1>&2; exit 1;;
    (*) break;;
    esac
    shift
done

echo "aflag: ${aflag}"
echo "bflag: ${bflag}"
echo "cargument: ${cargument}"

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while getopts "f(file):s(server):" flag
do
    echo "$flag" $OPTIND $OPTARG
done

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