Re: Handling getopt for option without optional argument value

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/23/21 1:00 PM, lisa-asket@perso.be wrote:
> Good Evening Chet,
>
> An maintainer of bash, I want to suggest an improvement to the capability 
> of bash built-in
> getopt to also handle long options, or another implementation with a 
> different name if
> you are worried that the changes could break people's scripts.

How would you propose adding the specification of these long options to the
existing getopts argument syntax in a compatible way?

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/