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

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On Fri, November 13, 2015 12:56 pm, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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.

Well, there you go.  :)  Thanks for replying. I do currently have just
such a workaround implemented. Any chance of making this behavior clearer
in the man page?

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Re: Possible bug in getopts when required argument is not supplied "Griff Miller II" <griff.miller@oplink.net> - 2015-11-13 13:57 -0600

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