Re: Getopts variations(Interesting question!)!!!!

On Friday 03 Sep 2004 12:37 pm, amitflu wrote:
>
> My question is how can we understand something
> like "--any-status" or big strings passed by the
> user.
>
> My application want user to pass "--any-status"
> when he wants to view the status.
>

Amit, if this and your previous requirement are any indication, you are better 
off with Perl than shell script for reasons of portability.

What you are looking for is the "long" variant of getopt. I dont know whether 
it is available for the shell, but you are better off with Getopt::Long in 
perl.

- Sandip

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