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Re: Possible bug in getopts when required argument is not supplied

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On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:13:15AM -0600, Griff Miller II wrote:
> % ./myscript -a -b b
> 
> Note that in the last run, getopts does not detect that nothing was passed
> via -a, even though -a requires it. Instead, it thinks the next switch
> (-b) is the value of -a. Perhaps this was a conscious decision,

Yes, it is.

If you want your script to disallow arguments of -a that begin with a
hyphen character, you will have to check for that yourself.

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Re: Possible bug in getopts when required argument is not supplied Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2015-11-13 13:56 -0500

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