Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Greg Wooledge Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Possible bug in getopts when required argument is not supplied Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:56:16 -0500 Lines: 12 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <535058272b68c9459882c6bd4565b428.squirrel@webmail.oplink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1447440984 16303 208.118.235.17 (13 Nov 2015 18:56:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org To: Griff Miller II Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <535058272b68c9459882c6bd4565b428.squirrel@webmail.oplink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 139.137.100.1 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11876 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.