Public bug reported:
I am using Ubuntu 9.10. Sorry, but I do not know the correct package
number.
Consider the following two bash scripts:
#!/bin/bash
while getopts "a:bc" flag; do
echo "$flag $OPTARG"
done
and
#!/bin/bash
while getopts "a:bc" flag "-a test -b -c"; do
echo "$flag $OPTARG"
done
Let the first be test1 and the second be test2.
Output from test1:
./test1 -a test -b -c
a test
b
c
Output from test2:
./test2
a test -b -c
Please note that "-a test -b -c" command line in the second case is passed as a
parameter to getopts.
I expected:
./test2
a test
b
c
So, it seems like getopts do not correctly parse arguments from a string
given as an argument rather than from a script command line.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: bash
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Bash script getopts strange behaviour
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522591
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