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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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In the usage string of my custom shell script, shall I also display --help and --version?

I'm currently developing a shell script, called up, which shows a usage string on the commandline when called with --help. The output looks like this: $ up --help usage: up [-n ...