getopts fails if $1 isn't preceded by -

Nergar · 05-23-2008, 12:59 AM

How can I catch $1 with getopts when it doesn't have a preceding - ? so I can run a script like this:

script directory [options]

Code:

foo /bar -f

without getopts failing?

unSpawn · 05-23-2008, 06:43 AM

Well, generally you shouldn't. If you use getopts you should use it properly, everything else is unexpected behaviour IMHO. Anyway, you could test for absence of switch sign, shift by one and then loop over the other variables.