Re: Handling getopt for option without optional argument value

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021, at 3:16 PM, lisa-asket@perso.be wrote:
> Although your link states that it is posix compliant.

This only means that it can be run by POSIX-compliant shells.  It
does not mean that the tool or its interface is POSIX-compliant.

> Perhaps Chet can find it useful and suitable
> 
> for Gnu Bash to have similar functionality to all users, rather than 
> something that just works for myself.

Chet has repeatedly solicited input on how getopts might be improved
in a backward-compatible manner, and your responses have effectively
been "well why don't you just look at this other thing and copy
them".  This is highly unlikely to result in any meaningful changes.

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vq