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bug in bash?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julien Maillard)
Sat Oct 26 15:34:23 1996
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Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 15:31:05 -0400
From: Julien Maillard <maillard@tulipe.val.org>
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I have the bash script:
--
#!/bin/bash
while getopts :p: arg
do
echo "arg=$arg OPTARG=$OPTARG"
case $arg in
p) echo "p option called arg=$OPTARG" ;;
:) echo "$0: Must supply an argument to $OPTARG." ;;
\?) echo "Invalid option $OPTARG ignored." >&2 ;;
esac
done
--
which gives me:
--
[maillard@tulipe maillard]$ test0 -p 12
arg=p OPTARG=12
p option called arg=12
-- this is ok
[maillard@tulipe maillard]$ test0 -x
arg=? OPTARG=x
Invalid option x ignored.
-- this is ok
[maillard@tulipe maillard]$ test0 -p
arg=? OPTARG=p
Invalid option p ignored.
-- this is not OK! the missing argument should cause getopts to set arg to
colon (:), right? that's what the man page says...
Can anyone tell me what's wrong here? Thank you.
--
Julien Maillard maillard@vt.edu
Virginia Tech
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