Is there any way to use more descriptive options such as:

-option1 blabla -option2 blabla
instead of just
-o blabla -p blabla

I havent been able to find anything about it or make i work with getopts...

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Morten Seeberg wrote:

> Is there any way to use more descriptive options such as:
>
> -option1 blabla -option2 blabla
> instead of just
> -o blabla -p blabla
>
> I havent been able to find anything about it or make i work with
> getopts...

At least for linux there is getopt.
A commandline parser to be used from scripts.
That can deal with long options
I am not sure about other OS's

Eric

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As I was still googling around, i noticed this being called longoptions, and
found the thread:
ksh'93 getopts --longoptions


"Morten Seeberg" <xml@seeberg.dk> wrote in message
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> Is there any way to use more descriptive options such as:
>
> -option1 blabla -option2 blabla
> instead of just
> -o blabla -p blabla
>
> I havent been able to find anything about it or make i work with
getopts...

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"Morten Seeberg" <xml@seeberg.dk> wrote in message news:<sx88d.1963$ZH1.598@news.get2net.dk>
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> Is there any way to use more descriptive options such as:
>
> -option1 blabla -option2 blabla
> instead of just
> -o blabla -p blabla
>
> I havent been able to find anything about it or make i work with getopts...[/vbcol
]


Some implementations of "getopts" will allow long options, however
that is not portable across platforms.  There is an example ksh93
function called "getwordopts_k93" that allows the use of words as
options at the following URL:

http://www.mtxia.com/fancyIndex/Too...x/find_k93.html

This function is not intended as a replacement for "getopts", it is
merely intended to solve a specific problem for the "find_k93"
function.  You may be able to modify this function for your specfic
needs.

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Morten Seeberg wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Is there any way to use more descriptive options such as:
>
> -option1 blabla -option2 blabla
> instead of just
> -o blabla -p blabla
>
> I havent been able to find anything about it or make i work with getopts...[/vbcol
]

As others pointed out already, ksh93 supports that feature.

The only somewhat elaborate source of documentation with
examples that I have found yet is a book of Rosenblatt
("Learning Korn Shell" was the title, I think).

Janis

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Morten Seeberg wrote:

> Is there any way to use more descriptive options such as:
>
> -option1 blabla -option2 blabla
> instead of just
> -o blabla -p blabla
>
> I havent been able to find anything about it or make i work with
> getopts...

At least for linux there is getopt.
A commandline parser to be used from scripts.
That can deal with long options
I am not sure about other OS's

Eric

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As I was still googling around, i noticed this being called longoptions, and
found the thread:
ksh'93 getopts --longoptions


"Morten Seeberg" <xml@seeberg.dk> wrote in message
news:sx88d.1963$ZH1.598@news.get2net.dk...
> Is there any way to use more descriptive options such as:
>
> -option1 blabla -option2 blabla
> instead of just
> -o blabla -p blabla
>
> I havent been able to find anything about it or make i work with
getopts...

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