getopt command problem: doesn't re-quote

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1 total messages Started by usenet Fri, 13 Mar 1987 15:12

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Author: usenet
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1987 15:12

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Don't know if anyone's brought this up before, but the getopt command seems to 
have a bit of a problem.  It doesn't "re-quote" arguments, so they get broken
up incorrectly when parsed by the shell.  

Example:	 getopt x: -x "a test"
produces:	-x a test --
instead of:	-x "a test" --
Resulting in:  			Instead of:
		$1=-x 			$1=-x
		$2=a 			$2=a test
		$3=test 		$3=--
		$4=--

Even "sh" itself recognizes this problem, and provides re-quoting via "$@" .

Since writing one's own getopt program is trivial on a system with the getopt
call, this is more of a major annoyance than a problem.  So, my questions:
1)  Any portable workarounds (I can't think of any)?
2)  Have any of the standards groups thought of proposing that this be fixed?

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