I'm using getopt() to get command line options.One the optons accepts and argument.The argument is and offset.I was wondering how can I scecify that it's argument is of the type off_t.I've something like this "offset=(off_t)optarg" and it don't work. (1 Reply)
scriptname
i have made a script to perform so tasks and i managed to complete the tasks for all the options
the problem i am facing is that i can run the scripts individually but i would like to make it such that it can accept multiple options and give me the appropriate output
e.g.... (1 Reply)
#!/bin/sh
set -- `getopt "abco:" "$@"`
a= b= c= o=
while :
do
case "$1" in
-a) a=1;;
-b) b=1;;
-c) c=1;;
-o) shift; o="$1";;
--) break;;
esac
shift
done
shift # get rid of --
# rest of script...
# e.g.
ls -l $@ (6 Replies)
I m trying to use getopt
This is my script, but it doesn't take argument in variable,
Please help.
set - - `getopt mscl: $*`
if
then
echo "Exiting...."
exit 2
fi
for i in $*
do
case $i in
-m) MAIL="$i"; shift;;
-s) SCRIPT=$OPTARG; shift;;
-c) COB=$OPTARG; shift;;... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to use the getopt function to parse some arguments for a script.
while getopts "i:f:r:" OPTION
do
case $OPTION in
i) iter=$OPTARG;;
f) frame=$OPTARG;;
r) roi=$OPTARG;;
?) echo Usage: ......
exit 2;;
esac
done
However, I... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
An old work friend wrote a script which I've been trying to understand how a section of it currently works and work out how i can add some command line switches which i can use later in the script to append the output depending on the command line arguements.
Currently it works by... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mutley2202
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getopt
getopt(3) Library Functions Manual getopt(3)Name
getopt - get option letter from argument vector
Syntax
#include <stdio.h>
int getopt (argc, argv, optstring)
int argc;
char **argv;
char *optstring;
extern char *optarg;
extern int optind, opterr;
Description
The subroutine returns the next option letter in argv that matches a letter in optstring. The optstring is a string of recognized option
letters; if a letter is followed by a colon, the option is expected to have an argument that may or may not be separated from it by white
space. The optarg is set to point to the start of the option argument on return from
The function places in optind the argv index of the next argument to be processed. The external variable optind is automatically initial-
ized to 1 before the first call to
When all options have been processed (that is, up to the first non-option argument), returns EOF. The special option -- may be used to
delimit the end of the options; EOF will be returned, and -- will be skipped.
Diagnostics
The function prints an error message on stderr and returns a question mark (?) when it encounters an option letter that is not included in
optstring. Setting opterr to 0 disables this error message.
Examples
The following code fragment shows how one might process the arguments for a command that can take the mutually exclusive options a and b,
and the options f and o, both of which require arguments:
#include <stdio.h>
main (argc, argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{
int c;
extern int optind, opterr;
extern char *optarg;
.
.
.
.
while ((c = getopt (argc, argv, "abf:o:")) != EOF)
switch (c) {
case 'a':
if (bflg)
errflg++;
else
aflg++;
break;
case 'b':
if (aflg)
errflg++;
else
bproc( );
break;
case 'f':
ifile = optarg;
break;
case 'o':
ofile = optarg;
bufsiza = 512;
break;
case '?':
errflg++;
}
if (errflg) {
fprintf (stderr, "usage: . . . ");
exit (2);
}
for ( ; optind < argc; optind++) {
if (access (argv[optind], 4)) {
.
.
.
}
See Alsogetopt(1)getopt(3)