Getopts
#!/usr/bin/bash
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Examples taken from https://zerotomastery.io/blog/bash-getopts/
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ExampleGroup 'getopts'
Example 'getopts with options that require arguments'
function eg1 {
while getopts "u:p:" opt; do
case $opt in
u) echo "username=${OPTARG}" ;;
p) echo "password=${OPTARG}" ;;
*) echo "Error: Invalid option";;
esac
done
}
When call eg1 -u "Alice" -p "1234"
The output line 1 should match pattern "username=Alice"
The output line 2 should match pattern "password=1234"
End
Example 'getopts with option that requires no argument'
function eg2 {
while getopts "u:p:h" opt; do
case $opt in
u) echo "username=${OPTARG}" ;;
p) echo "password=${OPTARG}" ;;
h) echo "Help: This script accepts -u <username>, -p <password> and -h for help.";;
*) echo "Error: Invalid option";;
esac
done
}
When call eg2 -h
The output should match pattern "Help: This script accepts -u <username>, -p <password> and -h for help."
End
Example 'getopts with invalid option'
function eg3 {
while getopts "u:p:" opt; do
case $opt in
u) echo "username=${OPTARG}" ;;
p) echo "password=${OPTARG}" ;;
*) echo "Error: Invalid option";;
esac
done
}
When call eg3 -z
The output should match pattern "Error: Invalid option"
The error should include "illegal option -- z"
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Example 'leading : supresses error and puts missing option into OPTARG'
function eg4 {
while getopts ":u:p:" opt; do
case $opt in
u) echo "username=${OPTARG}" ;;
p) echo "password=${OPTARG}" ;;
*) echo "Error: Invalid option -${OPTARG}";;
esac
done
}
When call eg4 -z
The output should match pattern "Error: Invalid option -z"
End
End
https://zerotomastery.io/blog/bash-getopts/
http://www.shelldorado.com/goodcoding/cmdargs.html
help getopts
getopts: getopts optstring name [arg ...]
Parse option arguments.
Getopts is used by shell procedures to parse positional parameters
as options.
OPTSTRING contains the option letters to be recognized; if a letter
is followed by a colon, the option is expected to have an argument,
which should be separated from it by white space.
Each time it is invoked, getopts will place the next option in the
shell variable $name, initializing name if it does not exist, and
the index of the next argument to be processed into the shell
variable OPTIND. OPTIND is initialized to 1 each time the shell or
a shell script is invoked. When an option requires an argument,
getopts places that argument into the shell variable OPTARG.
getopts reports errors in one of two ways. If the first character
of OPTSTRING is a colon, getopts uses silent error reporting. In
this mode, no error messages are printed. If an invalid option is
seen, getopts places the option character found into OPTARG. If a
required argument is not found, getopts places a ':' into NAME and
sets OPTARG to the option character found. If getopts is not in
silent mode, and an invalid option is seen, getopts places '?' into
NAME and unsets OPTARG. If a required argument is not found, a '?'
is placed in NAME, OPTARG is unset, and a diagnostic message is
printed.
If the shell variable OPTERR has the value 0, getopts disables the
printing of error messages, even if the first character of
OPTSTRING is not a colon. OPTERR has the value 1 by default.
Getopts normally parses the positional parameters, but if arguments
are supplied as ARG values, they are parsed instead.
Exit Status:
Returns success if an option is found; fails if the end of options is
encountered or an error occurs.