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unsetting OPTINT in getopts
i am calling a function multiple time which uses getopts to parse function arguments.
WHile running, i am getting a bad shift error. i read somewhere that we have to reset the OPTIND variable after each getopts call. how do we do it?
using unset OPTIND doesn't help
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If you want to reset it, you don't want to unset it:

Code:
OPTIND=1
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when ever shell invokes OPTIND is initialized to 1
since you are calling function many times in same shell you are getting that error
so as cfajohnson suggested set OPTIND to in at the starting of function
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