getopts missing with latest cygwin

Chet Ramey chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu
Wed Oct 11 07:18:00 GMT 2000


> > Worse than useless :-)
> 
> Sigh, I guess I'm just going to have to respond with hard proof, since
> everyone who's saying "it can't work!" never bothered to find out what
> that kind of program really does.

You're confusing getopt(1), which appears in SVR2-based systems, and
getopts(1), the subject of this discussion.

Your description of getopt(1) is correct, but not really relevant.  That
program has problems of its own, like quoting arguments containing
whitespace.  That issue, and others, is what inspired the implementation
of getopts(1), which first appeared in the SVR3 sh.




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