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Add a prominent deprecation notice to getopt.1. Add examples of the getopts idiom to sh.1 and ksh.1. Requested by and ok espie@, ok jmc@
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.\" $OpenBSD: getopt.1,v 1.20 2021/05/04 21:03:31 naddy Exp $
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.\"
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.\" This material, written by Henry Spencer, was released by him
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.\" into the public domain and is thus not subject to any copyright.
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.\"
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.Dd $Mdocdate: May 4 2021 $
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.Dt GETOPT 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm getopt
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.Nd parse command options
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Ar optstring
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.Va $*
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility cannot handle option arguments containing whitespace;
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consider using the standard
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.Ic getopts
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shell built-in instead.
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.Pp
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.Nm
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is used to break up options in command lines for easy parsing by
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shell procedures, and to check for legal options.
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.Ar optstring
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is a string of recognized option letters (see
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.Xr getopt 3 ) ;
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if a letter is followed by a colon, the option
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is expected to have an argument which may or may not be
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separated from it by whitespace.
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However, if a letter is followed by two colons, the argument is optional
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and may not be separated by whitespace \- this is an extension not
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covered by POSIX.
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The special option
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.Sq --
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is used to delimit the end of the options.
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.Nm
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will place
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.Sq --
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in the arguments at the end of the options,
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or recognize it if used explicitly.
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The shell arguments
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.Pf ( Va $1 , $2 , ... )
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are reset so that each option is
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preceded by a
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.Sq -
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and in its own shell argument;
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each option argument is also in its own shell argument.
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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The following code fragment shows how one might process the arguments
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for a command that can take the options
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.Fl a
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and
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.Fl b ,
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and the option
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.Fl o ,
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which requires an argument.
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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args=`getopt abo: $*`
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if [ $? -ne 0 ]
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then
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echo 'Usage: ...'
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exit 2
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fi
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set -- $args
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while [ $# -ne 0 ]
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do
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case "$1"
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in
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-a|-b)
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flag="$1"; shift;;
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-o)
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oarg="$2"; shift; shift;;
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--)
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shift; break;;
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esac
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done
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.Ed
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.Pp
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This code will accept any of the following as equivalent:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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cmd -aoarg file file
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cmd -a -o arg file file
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cmd -oarg -a file file
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cmd -a -oarg -- file file
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.Ed
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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.Nm
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prints an error message on the standard error output when it
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encounters an option letter not included in
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.Ar optstring .
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr sh 1 ,
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.Xr getopt 3
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.Sh HISTORY
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Written by Henry Spencer, working from a Bell Labs manual page.
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Behavior believed identical to the Bell version.
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.Sh CAVEATS
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Note that the construction
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.Pp
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.Dl set -- `getopt optstring $*`
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.Pp
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is not recommended, as the exit value from
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.Sy set
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will prevent the exit value from
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.Nm
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from being determined.
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.Sh BUGS
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Whatever
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.Xr getopt 3
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has.
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.Pp
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Arguments containing whitespace or embedded shell metacharacters
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generally will not survive intact; this looks easy to fix but isn't.
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.Pp
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The error message for an invalid option is identified as coming
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from
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.Nm
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rather than from the shell procedure containing the invocation
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of
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.Nm getopt ;
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this again is hard to fix.
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.Pp
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The precise best way to use the
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.Sy set
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command to set the arguments without disrupting the value(s) of
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shell options varies from one shell version to another.
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