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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Check input parameter Post 302459311 by Scott on Monday 4th of October 2010 10:37:15 AM
Old 10-04-2010
Hi.

I think that problem goes away with getopts:

Code:
$ cat testscript
while getopts a: ARG; do
  case "$ARG" in
    a)  echo "OPTARG is $OPTARG"
  esac
done

$ ./testscript -a" -v"

OPTARG is  -v

Not exactly clear what you're getting at, though, or why.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       checkbashisms, based on one of the checks from the lintian system, performs basic checks on /bin/sh shell scripts for the possible presence
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OPTIONS

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              Check for "echo -n" usage (non POSIX but required by Debian Policy 10.4.)

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              Force each script to be checked, even if it would normally not be (for instance, it has a bash or non POSIX shell shebang or appears
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SEE ALSO

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