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| From | Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> |
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| Subject | Re: Possible bug in getopts when required argument is not supplied |
| Date | Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:56:16 -0500 |
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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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