diff options
author | Christian Weisgerber <naddy@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2021-05-04 21:03:32 +0000 |
---|---|---|
committer | Christian Weisgerber <naddy@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2021-05-04 21:03:32 +0000 |
commit | c76a340f1c4f6b735d4f08d15cfab9704cbb6ac2 (patch) | |
tree | b78ecc4375f3ca62a43e595e2e0a35c96027a200 /bin/ksh/ksh.1 | |
parent | c4ad5ee55ded353eb6fd491fd2ea35840704a2cc (diff) |
shell scripts should use getopts instead of getopt
Add a prominent deprecation notice to getopt.1.
Add examples of the getopts idiom to sh.1 and ksh.1.
Requested by and ok espie@, ok jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/ksh/ksh.1')
-rw-r--r-- | bin/ksh/ksh.1 | 23 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ksh/ksh.1 b/bin/ksh/ksh.1 index a707a8c5798..b87dcf926a8 100644 --- a/bin/ksh/ksh.1 +++ b/bin/ksh/ksh.1 @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ksh.1,v 1.214 2021/03/11 07:04:12 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ksh.1,v 1.215 2021/05/04 21:03:30 naddy Exp $ .\" .\" Public Domain .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: March 11 2021 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: May 4 2021 $ .Dt KSH 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -3219,6 +3219,25 @@ resetting .Ev OPTIND , may lead to unexpected results. .Pp +The following code fragment shows how one might process the arguments +for a command that can take the option +.Fl a +and the option +.Fl o , +which requires an argument. +.Bd -literal -offset indent +while getopts ao: name +do + case $name in + a) flag=1 ;; + o) oarg=$OPTARG ;; + ?) echo "Usage: ..."; exit 2 ;; + esac +done +shift $(($OPTIND - 1)) +echo "Non-option arguments: " "$@" +.Ed +.Pp .It Xo .Ic hash .Op Fl r |