Re: command line arguments

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From: John B. Chambers
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1985 23:56

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From: John Chambers (guest moderator) <ut-sally!std-unix>

Topic: getopts (command line arguments) continued

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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 85 14:41:54 PDT
From: UCLA Computer Club <cc1@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA>
Subject: Re: command line arguments

Regarding getopts and the 'all arguments are proceded by a "-"':
What about arguments that can be on/off switches, or can be positive or
negative numbers? In other words, what is wrong with allowing '+' as an
indicator of arguments? There are some commands that use it already.

Incidently, what happens with getopts if the command line was
command -n -30
and:
Option n is fetched
option 3 is fetched
option 0 is fetched

(No well written program would do all this, but essentially, what happens
if an argument looks like a flag? Or have you never grep'ed for a string
beginning with -?)

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John B. Chambers, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp., Austin, TX
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Subject: Re: command line arguments
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