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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> True.  My bad old habit.
>
> An elegant method to do that:
>
> case --some-long-option in "$1"*) ..; esac

You are almost correct, but you need to realize that I generate
that long "case -s|--s|--so|--som|..." chain using a script that
takes all potential option names as its arguments, and makes
case arms that contain only unambiguous ones, so that I can
handle --some-long-option and --some-other-long-option sensibly.

Also you forgot to grok --some-option-with-args=* in your
version ;-).