Re: Parsing options in the form "-C8"

[Dennis Williamson]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 2:45 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 11/16/21 3:15 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 1:28 PM irenezerafa via <help-bash@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I want to parse options in the following way "-C8", with the option
> being
> >> -C and the value being `8`. What can
> >> I do to implement the functionality?
> >
> >
> > Bash does not have the features you're looking for.
>
> `getopts' can parse options specified like this.
>
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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/


I meant the totality of the feature requirements expressed over time.

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