As a remark on design, perhaps they should not be "options" if they are mandatory.
After the while loop, check if password or config file is unset, and die if it is?
I don't think there's a standard way to get long options with getopts; you can roll your own, though.
Making it die gracefully when an option which requires an argument doesn't receive any (i.e. $2 is not set at all) is left as an exercise. The problem of seeing that $2 is the next option is artificial intelligence (or you could invent a separate mechanism for specifying an argument which begins with dash, so that you can forbid option arguments to start with a dash in the general case. I don't know if that's good or bad usability).
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? (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a script that ran perfectly on Solaris 5.8
However after upgrade to Solaris 5.10 it started failing.
I invoke the script as below:
./TestScript3.ksh --dir $APP_DATA_IN_OLD $NDM_DATA/$NEXT_FILE
When i execute it i get the following error "getopts: dir bad option(s)".
Please let... (1 Reply)
Hello,
Does getopts have some way of handling the use of an option that requires a parameter more than once on the command line.
e.g. mycmd -a john -a jane
I came up with a solution using arrays (shown below), but wonder if getopts has some other way of handling it. Other solutions... (2 Replies)
I have a script with several options and during testing I found that the \? option does not handle options without dashes as I would expect. Then I run the script with any option that does not include a dash, it runs the script when I would expect \? to catch it and error.
I've tried this with... (2 Replies)
hi, here is a ksh script i wrote using getopts...
i want to find out how i can run it in default mode when no option is mentioned and no arguments are provided... ?
i.e if the script name is final1, then just running final1 should run in default mode....
while getopts 1:2:3:4: mode ... (1 Reply)
Hi Experts,
I am doing PXE boot for my GNU/Linux device and pxelinux.0 loads the kernel as well as initrd images I have mentioned in the config file but it looks like it is not considering the init= option. Instead it starts the default INIT program.
I wanted my customized init program to be... (3 Replies)
Hi Folks
I have got to the point where I can specify the arguments but how to pass an option is still mystery to me. Example:
temp.csh a b c d
set temp1 = $argv
set temp2 = $argv
set temp3 = $argv
echo $temp1
a
echo $temp2
b
echo $temp3
c d
I WANT:
temp.csh a b c d -S 1
set temp1... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am using below code in AIX env to interpret -n option given in argument while executing the script .I want to give another argument -t
#!/bin/sh
#set -x
while getopts ":n:" opt; do
case "$opt" in
n)
host=$OPTARG
shift 2
;;
*)... (3 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I need help in understanding the default value for getopts option's argument in ksh. I've written a short test script:
#!/bin/ksh
usage(){
printf "Usage: -v and -m are mandatory\n\n"
}
while getopts ":v#m:" opt; do
case $opt in
v) version="$OPTARG";;
... (1 Reply)
I am trying to execute the cli.sh script in another shell script passing arguments and getting the below error.
Myscript.sh
#!/bin/sh
/home/runAJobCli/cli.sh runAJobCli -n $Taskname -t $Tasktype
I am passing the below 2 arguments and it giving error
./Myscript.sh T_SAMPLE_TEST MTT... (11 Replies)