[ILUG] YABQ (yet another bash question)

[Wesley Darlington]

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 10:24:12AM +0000, Conor Daly wrote:
> Using getopts to parse a commend line to a bash script I can read
> one-letter options ( -o) but not long option names ( --option-name).  Can
> this be done?  Perhaps a case for an option of "-" and then a case
> construct on $OPTARG to catch the actual option but this requires a manual
> reading of the next commandline arg and and increment of OTPIND to avoid
> breaking the (continuing) getopts loop.  There's gotta be a better way eh?

The bash-doc package on debian seems to include a file getoptx.bash.gz
which might be what you're looking for...?

    /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/functions/getoptx.bash.gz

I can mail it to you if you like.

ATB,
Wesley.