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Old 07-25-2008
kdelok kdelok is offline
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getopts with non-option arguments?
Hello everyone,

Is it possible to use getopts and also receive arguments without option flags?

e.g. myscript arg1 arg2 -a arg3 -b arg4

If so, how do you stop getopts from exiting as soon as it detects the non-option arguments?