Re: Parsing options in the form "-C8"

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/16/21 3:47 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote:

>     >> I want to parse options in the following way "-C8", with the option
>     being
>     >> -C and the value being `8`. What can
>     >> I do to implement the functionality?
>     >
>     >
>     > Bash does not have the features you're looking for.
> 
>     `getopts' can parse options specified like this.
> 
> I meant the totality of the feature requirements expressed over time.

Sure, but that's my point. The requirements magically expand beyond the
initial set.

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