Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 17:41:54 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: getopt(1) man page woodoo Message-ID: <199610221641.RAA22495@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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DESCRIPTION
Getopt is used to break up options in command lines for easy parsing by
shell procedures, and to check for legal options. [Optstring] is a
string of recognized option letters (see getopt(3) ); if a letter is fol-
lowed by a colon, the option is expected to have an argument which may or
may not be separated from it by white space. The special option is used
to delimit the end of the options. Getopt will place in the arguments at
the end of the options, or recognize it if used explicitly. The shell
arguments ($1 $2 ...) are reset so that each option is preceded by a and
in its own shell argument; each option argument is also in its own shell
argument.
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See the missing -- and - ?
But they are in
The special option
.B \-\-
is used to delimit the end of the options.
.Nm Getopt
will place
.B \-\-
in the arguments at the end of the options,
or recognize it if used explicitly.
The shell arguments
(\fB$1 $2\fR ...) are reset so that each option is
preceded by a
.B \-
and in its own shell argument;
What's going on here?
--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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