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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-01-14 09:29:52 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-01-14 09:29:52 +0000
commitba0a79daaad7a2a9fe8d5e6890863d1f2f3fef2e (patch)
treedde21b935e3e1b212261ed88fa32a94b4b5dc533 /usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1
parentb43891cd6064c31969bb094b6175bceeef33efbb (diff)
update the example and synopsis so that we are checking the
exit value of getopt itself, not `set'; example merged from current freebsd page; problem reported by nordin; ok millert
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/getopt/getopt.19
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 b/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1
index a6b0b9466bf..51763c22840 100644
--- a/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1
+++ b/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: getopt.1,v 1.9 2006/01/13 22:13:53 jmc Exp $ -*- nroff -*-
+.\" $OpenBSD: getopt.1,v 1.10 2006/01/14 09:29:51 jmc Exp $ -*- nroff -*-
.\"
.\" This material, written by Henry Spencer, was released by him
.\" into the public domain and is thus not subject to any copyright.
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
.Nm getopt
.Nd parse command options
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm set -- `getopt optstring $*`
+.Nm args=`getopt optstring $*`; errcode=$?; set -- $args
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is used to break up options in command lines for easy parsing by
@@ -46,12 +46,13 @@ and the option
.Fl o ,
which requires an argument.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-set -- `getopt abo: $*`
-if test $? != 0
+args=`getopt abo: $*`
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo 'Usage: ...'
exit 2
fi
+set -- $args
for i
do
case "$i"