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Processing shell script options with awk
I'm looking for way to process shell script arguments that is cleaner and more "self documenting" than getopt/getopts.
It would need to provide...
Full support of long options with or without a ...
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getopt, getopts or manual parsing - what to use when I want to support both short and long options?
Currently I'm writing a Bash script which has the following requirements:
it should run on a wide variety of Unix/Linux platforms
it should support both short and (GNU) long options
I know that ...
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How can I detect that no options were passed with getopts?
I have this code -
#getoptDemo.sh
usage()
{
echo "usage: <command> options:<w|l|h>"
}
while getopts wlh: option
do
case $option in
(w)
name='1';;
...
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Getopts option processing, Is it possible to add a non hyphenated [FILE]?
I'm using getopts for all of my scripts that require advanced option parsing, and It's worked great with dash. I'm familiar with the standard basic getopts usage, consisting of [-x] and [-x OPTION]. ...
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4answers
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How do I handle switches in a shell script?
Are there some built-in tools that will recognize -x and --xxxx as switches, and not arguments, or do you have to go through all the input variables, test for dashes, and then parse the arguments ...
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1answer
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How to run a specified codeblock with getopts when no options or arguments are supplied?
So I am writing a script that mixes options with arguments with options that don't. From research I have found that getopts is the best way to do this, and so far it has been simple to figure out and ...
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2answers
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How to catch optioned and non optioned arguments correctly?
I want to write a shell script which will take some arguments with some options and print that arguments. Suppose the name of that script is abc.ksh. Usage of that script is -
./abc.ksh -[a ...
