[pass] [patch] use getopt to regularize options

Stephen Paul Weber singpolyma at singpolyma.net
Wed Sep 12 16:06:31 CEST 2012


Somebody claiming to be Simon Zimmermann wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Brian Mattern <rephorm at rephorm.com> wrote:
>> I *think* this is portable, but don't have access to any
>> systems other than linux to test on.
>
>Linux uses GNU C getopt library, while Mac OS X the BSD C
>implementation of it.

The `getopts` command is a little different from the getopt() library call.  
It would not suprise me if the GNU version of the command supports some 
extensions (like longopts), but for portability the spec is here: 
<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/getopts.html>

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