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I was getting a fair bit confused with getopt and getopts earlier in the week, I found this article really useful - http://aplawrence.com/Unix/getopts.html and ended up migrating from getopt to getopts with the help of the really simple example he gives.
For your specific questions, firstly I think as your shifting AND using the options as a while input you're jumping over it. secondly there's nothing wrong with no options by default, it's merely an empty set of data to work on.
Last edited by acid_kewpie; 09-10-2009 at 02:42 PM.
I was getting a fair bit confused with getopt and getopts earlier in the week, I found this article really useful - http://aplawrence.com/Unix/getopts.html and ended up migrating from getopt to getopts with the help of the really simple example he gives.
For your specific questions, firstly I think as your shifting AND using the options as a while input you're jumping over it. secondly there's nothing wrong with no options by default, it's merely an empty set of data to work on.
Yep, thanks I shifted from a case to getopts as I now have more than a few
switches.
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