From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:13:36 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Message-ID: <87d4usaden.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
In-Reply-To: <buofxzp18qp.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>

I previously wrote:
> Indeed... but for my personal shell scripts I like to use a construct
> like the following for parsing args:

In a little more detail, the arg-splitting case:

>        -[!-]?*)
>          # split concatenated single-letter options apart
>          FIRST="$1"; shift
>          set -- `echo $FIRST | $SED 's/-\(.\)\(.*\)/-\1 -\2/'` "$@"
>          ;;

Just strips off the first short option and stuffs it back into the list
of args to parse, so "-xyz" becomes "-x -yz".  That way short args get
split by default, but short-args with an appended value still work
correctly.

So, for instance, if in the above example, "-y" takes an argument, then
there'd be a switch case case for "-y*") which would consume the "-yz"
before it reached the arg-splitting case; if "-y" _doesn't_ take an
argument, then "-yz" would get split in turn, becoming "-y -z".

-Miles

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