A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1784 ====================================================================== Reported By: kre Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: Issue 8 drafts Issue ID: 1784 Category: Shell and Utilities Type: Error Severity: Objection Priority: normal Status: New Name: Robert Elz Organization: User Reference: Section: XCU 3 / getopts Page Number: 2955 - 2959 Line Number: 98803 - 98966 Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2023-10-22 06:14 UTC Last Modified: 2023-11-13 18:09 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: getopts specification needs fixing (multiple issues) ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0006568) shware_systems (reporter) - 2023-11-13 18:09 https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1784#c6568 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I think originally the getopts utility interface assumed a user would specify voluntarily all options be preceded by a <dash>, or <plus>, as separate arguments, e.g. "-a -b" and not "-ab", and having multiple options was more a syntax line documentation convenience only. There may have been thoughts too on making it the shells responsibility to split apart multiple options to this format before processing lines of a script so getopt wouldn't need to be bothered, but it doesn't look like any shells ever implemented this. Then OPTIND as documented would specify which argument that had a leading option <dash> was next to be referenced unambiguously. Without such munging it is probably better to make OPTIND an opaque variable of unspecified format, not numeric, that only getopt may reliably reference. Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2023-10-22 06:14 kre New Issue 2023-10-22 06:14 kre Name => Robert Elz 2023-10-22 06:14 kre Section => XCU 3 / getopts 2023-10-22 06:14 kre Page Number => 2955 - 2959 2023-10-22 06:14 kre Line Number => 98803 - 98966 2023-10-22 06:40 kre Tag Attached: issue8 2023-10-28 05:08 Don Cragun Relationship added related to 0001535 2023-10-28 05:10 Don Cragun Relationship added related to 0001393 2023-10-28 05:10 Don Cragun Relationship added parent of 0000351 2023-10-28 05:19 kre Note Added: 0006555 2023-10-28 05:36 kre Note Added: 0006556 2023-10-28 06:25 Don Cragun Note Added: 0006558 2023-10-28 06:27 Don Cragun Relationship deleted related to 0001535 2023-10-28 06:28 Don Cragun Relationship deleted related to 0001393 2023-10-28 06:34 Don Cragun Relationship deleted parent of 0000351 2023-10-28 06:34 kre Note Edited: 0006556 2023-11-13 18:09 shware_systems Note Added: 0006568 ======================================================================
