# Simple usage cases for getopts. # # OPTIND is either not touched at all (first loop with getopts, # relying on shell startup init), or getopts state is reset # before new loop with "unset OPTIND", "OPTIND=1" or "OPTIND=0". # # Each option is a separate argument (no "-abc"). This conceptually # needs only $OPTIND to hold getopts state. # # We check that loop does not stop on unknown option (sets "?"), # stops on _first_ non-option argument. ( echo "*** no OPTIND, optstring:'ab' args:-a -b c" var=QWERTY while getopts "ab" var -a -b c; do echo "var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" done # unfortunately, "rc:0" is shown since while's overall exitcode is "success" echo "exited: rc:$? var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" # Resetting behavior =1 echo "*** OPTIND=1, optstring:'ab' args:-a -b c" OPTIND=1 while getopts "ab" var -a -b c; do echo "var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" done echo "exited: rc:$? var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" # Resetting behavior =0 echo "*** OPTIND=0, optstring:'ab' args:-a -b c" OPTIND=0 while getopts "ab" var -a -b c; do echo "var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" done echo "exited: rc:$? var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" # Resetting behavior "unset" echo "*** unset OPTIND, optstring:'ab' args:-a -b c" unset OPTIND while getopts "ab" var -a -b c; do echo "var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" done echo "exited: rc:$? var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" # What is the final exitcode? echo "*** optstring:'ab' args:-a -b c" unset OPTIND getopts "ab" var -a -b c; echo "1 rc:$? var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" getopts "ab" var -a -b c; echo "2 rc:$? var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" getopts "ab" var -a -b c; echo "3 rc:$? var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" # Where would it stop? c or -c? echo "*** unset OPTIND, optstring:'ab' args:-a c -c -b d" unset OPTIND while getopts "ab" var -a c -c -b d; do echo "var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" done echo "exited: rc:$? var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" # What happens on unknown option? echo "*** unset OPTIND, optstring:'ab' args:-a -c -b d" unset OPTIND while getopts "ab" var -a -c -b d; do echo "var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" done echo "exited: rc:$? var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" # ORTERR=0 suppresses error message? echo "*** unset OPTIND, OPTERR=0, optstring:'ab' args:-a -c -b d" unset OPTIND OPTERR=0 while getopts "ab" var -a -c -b d; do echo "var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" done echo "exited: rc:$? var:'$var' OPTIND:$OPTIND" ) 2>&1 \ | sed -e 's/ unrecognized option: / invalid option -- /' \ -e 's/ illegal option -- / invalid option -- /' \