On April 13, 2005 01:03 pm, Edward Catmur wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 12:54 -0400, daniel wrote: > > i've been writing a series of more complicated shell scripts lately and > > i've found myself looking for ways to pass options to it in a fashion > > like so: > > > > # scriptname -o -p -t -i -o -n > > > > or this: > > > > # scriptname --someoption=stuff > > Google for the 'getopts' bash builtin. I think it's in the Advanced Bash > Scripting Guide.
thanks! that's exactly what i needed: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~abatko/computers/programming/perl/howto/getopts/ http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/20/0352257&tid=47&tid=94 -- I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town. - Simon, Firefly, "Jaynestown" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
