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From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] --foo bar cmdline argument parsing support for grub-* scripts
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:54:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100209125412.GP4409@riva.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B715875.5040706@gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:43:33PM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote:
> BVK Chaitanya wrote:
>> I assume you are talking about /usr/bin/getopt (not libc getopt).
>> /usr/bin/getopt comes with util-linux package (in debian), and yes, I
>> too dont think it would be available on other platforms as bash or
>> coreutils does.
>
> You might want to use the POSIX shell built-in getopts instead of the  
> getopt binary.
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/getopts.html
>
> This built-in is supported by bash, ksh, NetBSD sh, and surely many  
> other shells.

But it doesn't support long options, so it is useless here.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-09 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-07  5:12 [PATCH] --foo bar cmdline argument parsing support for grub-* scripts BVK Chaitanya
2010-02-07 15:02 ` Colin Watson
2010-02-08 16:23   ` BVK Chaitanya
2010-02-09 12:43     ` Grégoire Sutre
2010-02-09 12:54       ` Colin Watson [this message]
2010-04-12 17:30         ` BVK Chaitanya

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