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Re: Possible bug in getopts when required argument is not supplied
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Griff Miller II |
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Re: Possible bug in getopts when required argument is not supplied |
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Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:57:10 -0600 |
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On Fri, November 13, 2015 12:56 pm, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:13:15AM -0600, Griff Miller II wrote:
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>> % ./myscript -a -b b
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>> Note that in the last run, getopts does not detect that nothing was
>> passed via -a, even though -a requires it. Instead, it thinks the next
>> switch (-b) is the value of -a. Perhaps this was a conscious decision,
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> Yes, it is.
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> If you want your script to disallow arguments of -a that begin with a
> hyphen character, you will have to check for that yourself.
Well, there you go. :) Thanks for replying. I do currently have just
such a workaround implemented. Any chance of making this behavior clearer
in the man page?