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> Petr Baudis wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:04:03AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
> >> Is 'getopts' bash-ism, or is it in POSIX?
> >
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/getopts.html
> >
> > (Also, most modern distributions have manpage section 1p (3p, ...) with
> > the same contents, so you can check for this stuff pretty easily.)
>
> Thanks.
>
> I have just realized however that it doesn't help any (option parser
> not only for C builtin, but also for shell scripts, Perl scripts and
> Python scripts). First, we (the git development community) do not
> consider fact that something is in POSIX as indicator that we can use
> the construct. Second, getopts delas IIRC only with _short_ options.
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>