Marc Espie: > Until a patch from naddy, I wasn't even aware of getopts in sh(1)
Let's start the discussion with this instead. This puts the deprecation notice in getopt.1 in a prominent place, and uses the same snippet in sh.1 and ksh.1. Index: bin/ksh/ksh.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ksh/ksh.1,v retrieving revision 1.214 diff -u -p -r1.214 ksh.1 --- bin/ksh/ksh.1 11 Mar 2021 07:04:12 -0000 1.214 +++ bin/ksh/ksh.1 30 Apr 2021 14:40:52 -0000 @@ -3219,6 +3219,25 @@ resetting .Ev OPTIND , may lead to unexpected results. .Pp +The following code fragment shows how one might process the arguments +for a command that can take the option +.Fl a +and the option +.Fl o , +which requires an argument. +.Bd -literal -offset indent +while getopts ao: name +do + case $name in + a) flag=1 ;; + o) oarg=$OPTARG ;; + ?) echo "Usage: ..."; exit 2 ;; + esac +done +shift $(($OPTIND - 1)) +echo "Non-option arguments: " "$@" +.Ed +.Pp .It Xo .Ic hash .Op Fl r Index: bin/ksh/sh.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ksh/sh.1,v retrieving revision 1.152 diff -u -p -r1.152 sh.1 --- bin/ksh/sh.1 22 May 2019 15:23:23 -0000 1.152 +++ bin/ksh/sh.1 30 Apr 2021 14:45:22 -0000 @@ -508,6 +508,25 @@ is a colon, .Ev OPTARG is set to the unsupported option, otherwise an error message is displayed. +.Pp +The following code fragment shows how one might process the arguments +for a command that can take the option +.Fl a +and the option +.Fl o , +which requires an argument. +.Bd -literal -offset indent +while getopts ao: name +do + case $name in + a) flag=1 ;; + o) oarg=$OPTARG ;; + ?) echo "Usage: ..."; exit 2 ;; + esac +done +shift $(($OPTIND - 1)) +echo "Non-option arguments: " "$@" +.Ed .It Ic hash Op Fl r | Ar utility Add .Ar utility Index: usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1,v retrieving revision 1.19 diff -u -p -r1.19 getopt.1 --- usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 16 Mar 2018 16:58:26 -0000 1.19 +++ usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 30 Apr 2021 14:25:17 -0000 @@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ .Ar optstring .Va $* .Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +utility cannot handle option arguments containing whitespace; +consider using the standard +.Ic getopts +shell built-in instead. +.Pp .Nm is used to break up options in command lines for easy parsing by shell procedures, and to check for legal options. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
