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+.\" $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.