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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Getopts how to handle missing '-' in command line args. Post 302853959 by Corona688 on Monday 16th of September 2013 11:47:41 AM
Old 09-16-2013
How is it supposed to tell the difference between a missing -, and a filename named 'x' that the user wants to enter? What if the user really does want to enter a file named x? It can't, its ambiguous.
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named-checkconf(1M)					  System Administration Commands				       named-checkconf(1M)

NAME
named-checkconf - named configuration file syntax checking tool SYNOPSIS
named-checkconf [-v] [-t directory] filename DESCRIPTION
The named-checkconf utility checks the syntax, but not the semantics, of a named configuration file. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -t directory Change the root directory to directory so that include directives in the configuration file are processed as if run by a named configuration whose root directory has been similarly changed. -v Print the version of the named-checkconf program and exit. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: filename The name of the configuration file to be checked. If not specified, it defaults to /etc/named.conf. EXIT STATUS
0 No errors were detected. 1 An error was detected. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | |Availability |SUNWbind9 | |Interface Stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
named(1M), named.conf(4), attributes(5) BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual NOTES
Source for BIND9 is available in the SUNWbind9S package. SunOS 5.10 15 Dec 2004 named-checkconf(1M)
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