[ILUG] YABQ (yet another bash question)

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "CD" == Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net> writes:

    CD> Using getopts to parse a commend line to a bash script I can
    CD> read one-letter options ( -o) but not long option names (
    CD> --option-name).  Can this be done?  Perhaps a case for an
    CD> option of "-" and then a case construct on $OPTARG to catch
    CD> the actual option but this requires a manual reading of the
    CD> next commandline arg and and increment of OTPIND to avoid
    CD> breaking the (continuing) getopts loop.  There's gotta be a
    CD> better way eh?

The way GNU configure scripts do it looks fairly straightforward,
especially if you don't bother to allow abbreviation of the arguments.

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