I wish to have long and short forms of command line options invoked using my shell script. I know that getopts can be used, but like in Perl, I have not been able to do the same with shell. Any ideas on how this can be done, so that I can use options like: ./shell.sh … Read more
I want to call myscript file in this way: $ ./myscript -s 45 -p any_string or $ ./myscript -h #should display help $ ./myscript #should display help My requirements are: getopt here to get the input arguments check that -s exists, if not return an error check that the value after the -s is 45 … Read more
Say, I have a script that gets called with this line: ./myscript -vfd ./foo/bar/someFile -o /fizz/someOtherFile or this one: ./myscript -v -f -d -o /fizz/someOtherFile ./foo/bar/someFile What’s the accepted way of parsing this such that in each case (or some combination of the two) $v, $f, and $d will all be set to true and … Read more
