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On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 12:58 PM Roland Illig <roland.illig@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> The help text of getopts says:
>
> >   Getopts normally parses the positional parameters ($0 - $9), but if
> >   more arguments are given, they are parsed instead.
(...)
> The "instead" in "they are parsed instead" is totally wrong. $1 to $9
> are always parsed, no matter if there are more than 10 positional
> parameters or not.

It's not wrong.

> $ getopts
> getopts: usage: getopts optstring name [arg]

It's referring to the fact that you can explicitly pass a set of
parameters to `getopts' (i.e. the `[arg]' part), instead of it using
the script's positional parameters (i.e. $@).