bash option processing part 2: getopt()

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I am following IBM's example from their website: (listing #5) http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bash-parameters/index.html #!/bin/bash echo "OPTIND starts at $OPTIND" while getopts ":pq:" optname   do     case "$optname" in       "p")         echo "Option $optname is specified"         ;;       "q")         echo "Option $optname has value $OPTARG"         ;;       "?")         echo "Unknown option $OPTARG"         ;;       ":")         echo "No argument value for option $OPTARG"         ;;       *)       # Should not occur         echo "Unknown error while processing options"         ;;     esac     echo "OPTIND is now $OPTIND"   done All I want to to is have an option whose name is more than 1 letter. ie -pppp and -qqqq instead of -p and -q. I have written my program and implementing -help is giving me a problem... bash getopts share|edit asked Mar 26 at 21:40 spatara 825 100% accept rate

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Upfloor's are right. the getopt utility support long options while you can use --option. Maybe you can try this. #!/bin/bash args=`getopt -l help :pq: $*` for i in $args; do     case $i in     -p) echo "-p"         ;;     -q) shift;         optarg=$1;         echo "-q $optarg"         ;;     --help)         echo "--help"         ;;     esac done share|edit answered Mar 27 at 3:22 Think1st 312

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