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Last active November 1, 2024 12:38 — forked from bobpaul/gnu_getopt_example.sh
An example showing how to use getopt
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Time-stamp: <2017-04-27 09:57:21 kmodi>
# Time-stamp: <2018-03-20 12:58:02 bobpaul>
# derived from kmodi's gist: https://gist.github.com/kaushalmodi/74e9875d5ab0a2bc1010447f1bee5d0a
#
# Example of using getopt to parse command line options
# http://stackoverflow.com/a/29754866/1219634 Limitation: All the options
# starting with - have to be listed in --options/--longoptions, else getopt will
# error out.
# The downside is that if you intend to use this as a wrapper to some other program,