From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 10 22:37:07 1997 Return-Path: <owner-questions> Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA13242 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 May 1997 22:37:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA13237 for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 10 May 1997 22:37:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-132 [207.14.72.132]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA28568 for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 10 May 1997 20:34:43 -0800 Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 21:27:23 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net> X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: getopts Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970510212253.17799A-100000@aak.anchorage.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk how does one get "filename" in getopts? since no positional parameters ($1-$9) are set, when option parsing is done, where is the "filename"? i've searched the web everywhere, checked all the docs and maillists, but don't see any good info on getopts. # script -abc filename ---------------------- while getopts abc i; do deal with options -abc done now where is my filename? -------------------------------------------------------------------------