02-24-2012
Thanks! That's extremely helpful. I should be okay now.
FWIW, I didn't invent the true/false -- I got them out of an introduction to getopts that I found somewhere on the web. (And I hadn't had cause to use conditionals in a script before.)
Unfortunately I do have to deal with the possibility of spaces in filenames. (One of my collaborators works on a Mac, and this seems to be a perpetual issue there.) But I should still be able to adapt the
[ ! -z "$LABEL_SLOTS" ] && set -- "$@" "--label-slots"
to do the trick, right?
Edit: Actually, ack, it's just occurred to me that if I use set inside the getopts loop things are liable to go very wrong! I'll use three flags instead.
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NAME
libbash -- A bash shared libraries package.
DESCRIPTION
libbash is a package that enables bash dynamic-like shared libraries. Actually its a tool for managing bash scripts whose functions you may
want to load and use in scripts of your own.
It contains a 'dynamic loader' for the shared libraries ( ldbash(1)), a configuration tool (ldbashconfig(8)), and some libraries.
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ldbash(1) must answer 4 requirments:
1. It must be installed in $LIBBASH_PREFIX/lib/bash (default is /usr/lib/bash).
2. It must contain a line that begins with '#EXPORT='. That line will contain (after the '=') a list of functions that the library
exports. I.e. all the function that will be usable after loading that library will be listed in that line.
3. It must contain a line that begins with '#REQUIRE='. That line will contain (after the '=') a list of bash libraries that are
required for our library. I.e. every bash library that is in use in our bash library must be listed there.
4. The library must be listed (For more information, see ldbashconfig(8)).
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