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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man1/getopt.1 b/static/netbsd/man1/getopt.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bd946b04 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man1/getopt.1 @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: getopt.1,v 1.19 2010/01/24 20:13:28 dholland Exp $ +.Dd November 28, 2009 +.Dt GETOPT 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm getopt +.Nd parse command options +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Li args=\`getopt optstring $*\` +.Pp +.Li set \-\- \`getopt optstring $*\` +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +is used to break up options in command lines for easy parsing by +shell procedures, and to check for legal options. +.Op Optstring +is a string of recognized option letters (see +.Xr getopt 3 ) ; +if a letter is followed by a colon, the option +is expected to have an argument which may or may not be +separated from it by white space. +The special option +.Dq \-\- +is used to delimit the end of the options. +.Nm +will place +.Dq \-\- +in the arguments at the end of the options, +or recognize it if used explicitly. +The shell arguments +.Pq Ev $1 , Ev $2 , ... +are reset so that each option is +preceded by a +.Dq \- +and in its own shell argument; +each option argument is also in its own shell argument. +.Pp +.Nm +should not be used in new scripts; use the shell builtin +.Nm getopts +instead. +.Sh EXAMPLES +The following code fragment shows how one might process the arguments +for a command that can take the options +.Op a +and +.Op b , +and the option +.Op c , +which requires an argument. +.Pp +.Bd -literal -offset indent +args=\`getopt abc: $*\` +if [ $? \-ne 0 ]; then + echo 'Usage: ...' + exit 2 +fi +set \-\- $args +while [ $# \-gt 0 ]; do + case "$1" in + \-a|\-b) + flag=$1 + ;; + \-c) + carg=$2; shift + ;; + \-\-) + shift; break + ;; + esac + shift +done +.Ed +.Pp +This code will accept any of the following as equivalent: +.Pp +.Bd -literal -offset indent +cmd \-acarg file file +cmd \-a \-c arg file file +cmd \-carg -a file file +cmd \-a \-carg \-\- file file +.Ed +.Pp +.St -p1003.2 +mandates that the +.Xr sh 1 +set command return the value of 0 for the exit status. +Therefore, the exit status of the +.Nm +command is lost when +.Nm +and the +.Xr sh 1 +set command are used on the same line. +The example given is one way to detect errors found by +.Nm . +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Nm +prints an error message on the standard error output when it +encounters an option letter not included in +.Op optstring . +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr sh 1 , +.Xr getopt 3 +.Sh HISTORY +Written by Henry Spencer, working from a Bell Labs manual page. +Behavior believed identical to the Bell version. +.Sh BUGS +Whatever +.Xr getopt 3 +has. +.Pp +Arguments containing white space or embedded shell metacharacters +generally will not survive intact; this looks easy to fix but isn't. +.Pp +The error message for an invalid option is identified as coming +from +.Nm +rather than from the shell procedure containing the invocation +of +.Nm ; +this again is hard to fix. +.Pp +The precise best way to use the +.Ic set +command to set the arguments without disrupting the value(s) of +shell options varies from one shell version to another. |
