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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Getopts - space in argument (OPTARG) Post 302900540 by sea on Wednesday 7th of May 2014 10:55:33 AM
Old 05-07-2014
From what i see, i'd assume its more how the argument is set to the variable.

Eg:
Code:
while getopts "e:m:": name
do 	case $name in
	m)	var_M="$OPTARG"	;;
	e)	var_E="$OPTARG"	;;
	esac
done

If you leave out the quotes around $OPTARG, it'll catch only the first word of a string.

Hope this helps
Last edited by sea; 05-07-2014 at 12:11 PM.. Reason: code reduced to essential
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Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)

NAME

       Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things

DESCRIPTION

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SYNOPSIS

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METHODS

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   Instance Methods
       as_array
	   Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left.

       bottom
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AUTHOR

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SEE ALSO

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