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Old 05-23-2006
Handeling multiple options in script

i need to be able to handel if multiple commands are passed into my script.
(ie) [scriptname] -f -r -i [filename].
does anyone know a simple solution to handeling this. Thanks
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Old 05-23-2006
man getopts
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