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 me know what has changed between Solaris 5.8 & Solaris 5.10 to cause this & how it can be fixed. I am a Newbie to Scripts.
The body of TestScript3.ksh is given below:
Hi all,
I am parsing command line options using getopts.
The problem is that mandatory argument options following ":" is taking next option as argument if it is not followed by any argument.
Below is the script:
while getopts :hd:t:s:l:p:f: opt
do
case "$opt" in
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