Handling getopt for option without optional argument value

[lisa-asket]

Because they do net do the same things as long options.  Gnu does support long 
options,

so why is there no built-in to handle everything?





From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: lisa-asket@perso.be;
   Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>;
   help-bash <help-bash@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Handling getopt for option without optional argument value
Date: 23/07/2021 17:34:40 Europe/Paris

On 7/23/21 11:17 AM, lisa-asket@perso.be wrote:
> Tho approach should be to fix getopt if there are problems with it, no?

Why, when `getopts' exists and is a standard builtin?

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/getopts.html#tag_20_54

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