From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 1 10:47:57 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA26827 for current-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 10:47:57 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA26821 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 10:47:54 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA15354 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 10:47:48 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199507011747.KAA15354@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: getopt(1) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 10:47:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <199507011510.RAA02130@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jul 1, 95 05:10:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 559 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I'm missing the getopt(1) program to get some old shell scripts > working without converting them to use the modern replacement > getopts(1). I've got an older implementation (by me, back from 386BSD > 0.1 days) lying around, do people object against importing it? Yes I object, please convert you old scripts to be portable and use getopts(1) so you don't have to keep hauling getopt(1) around! -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD