On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 12:14:26PM BST, Marc Espie wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 12:03:00PM +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > > > You and me both ;^) > > > > Until recently, I thought that getopt(1) was POSIX, whereas it is > > in fact getopts(1), and it is not a shell built-in there, but a > > utility[0]. > > Nope, it is a shell built-in... the "wording" of posix is a bit strange, > but you can't possibly set variables inside the shell from an outside > command. > > It has the same status as read.
You're obviously right - the "utility" got me confused :^P R.
