On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:13:15AM -0600, Griff Miller II wrote: > % ./myscript -a -b b > > Note that in the last run, getopts does not detect that nothing was passed > via -a, even though -a requires it. Instead, it thinks the next switch > (-b) is the value of -a. Perhaps this was a conscious decision,
Yes, it is. If you want your script to disallow arguments of -a that begin with a hyphen character, you will have to check for that yourself.
