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GETOPTCVT(1)							  GETOPTCVT(1)

NAME
       getoptcvt - convert to getopts to parse command options

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/lib/getoptcvt [-b] filename

       /usr/lib/getoptcvt

DESCRIPTION
       /usr/lib/getoptcvt  reads  the shell script in filename, converts it to
       use getopts instead of getopt, and writes the results on	 the  standard
       output.

       getopts	is  a  built-in	 Bourne shell command used to parse positional
       parameters and to check for valid options. See sh(1). It	 supports  all
       applicable  rules  of  the  command  syntax  standard  (see Rules 3-10,
       Intro(1)). It should be used in place of the getopt command.  (See  the
       NOTES  section below.) The syntax for the shell's built-in getopts com‐
       mand is:

       getopts optstring name [ argument...]

       optstring must contain the option letters  the  command	using  getopts
       will  recognize;	 if a letter is followed by a colon (:), the option is
       expected to have an argument, or group of arguments, which must be sep‐
       arated from it by white space.

       Each  time  it  is invoked, getopts places the next option in the shell
       variable name and the index of the next argument to be processed in the
       shell variable OPTIND. Whenever the shell or a shell script is invoked,
       OPTIND is initialized to 1.

       When an option requires an option-argument, getopts places  it  in  the
       shell variable OPTARG.

       If an illegal option is encountered, ? will be placed in name.

       When  the  end of options is encountered, getopts exits with a non-zero
       exit status. The special option	−− may be used to delimit the  end  of
       the options.

       By  default,  getopts  parses the positional parameters. If extra argu‐
       ments (argument ...) are given on the  getopts  command	line,  getopts
       parses them instead.

       So  that	 all  new  commands will adhere to the command syntax standard
       described in Intro(1), they should use getopts or getopt to parse posi‐
       tional parameters and check for options that are valid for that command
       (see the NOTES section below).

OPTIONS
       The following option is supported:

       -b
	     Makes the converted script portable to earlier  releases  of  the
	     UNIX  system.   /usr/lib/getoptcvt	 modifies  the shell script in
	     filename so that when the resulting shell script is executed,  it
	     determines at run time whether to invoke getopts or getopt.

EXAMPLES
       Example 1 Processing the arguments for a command

       The  following  fragment of a shell program shows how one might process
       the arguments for a command that can take the options -a or -b, as well
       as the option -o, which requires an option-argument:

	 while getopts abo: c
	 do
	       case $c in
	       a | b)	  FLAG=$c;;
	       o)	  OARG=$OPTARG;;
	       \?)	  echo $USAGE
			  exit 2;;
	       esac
	 done
	 shift `expr $OPTIND − 1`

       Example 2 Equivalent code expressions

       This code accepts any of the following as equivalent:

	 cmd -a -b -o "xxx z yy" filename
	 cmd -a -b -o "xxx z yy" -filename
	 cmd -ab -o xxx,z,yy filename
	 cmd -ab -o "xxx z yy" filename
	 cmd -o xxx,z,yy b a filename

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       See  environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables
       that affect  the	 execution  of	getopts:  LC_CTYPE,  LC_MESSAGES,  and
       NLSPATH.

       OPTIND
		  This	variable is used by getoptcvt as the index of the next
		  argument to be processed.

       OPTARG
		  This variable is used by getoptcvt to store the argument  if
		  an option is using arguments.

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values are returned:

       0
	      An option, specified or unspecified by optstring, was found.

       >0
	      The end of options was encountered or an error occurred.

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌───────────────┬─────────────────┐
       │ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
       │CSI	       │ enabled	 │
       └───────────────┴─────────────────┘

SEE ALSO
       Intro(1),    getopts(1),	   sh(1),    shell_builtins(1),	   getopt(3C),
       attributes(5)

DIAGNOSTICS
       getopts prints an error message on the standard error when  it  encoun‐
       ters an option letter not included in optstring.

NOTES
       Although	 the  following command syntax rule (see Intro(1)) relaxations
       are permitted under the current implementation, they should not be used
       because	they may not be supported in future releases of the system. As
       in the EXAMPLES section above, -a and -b are options, and the option -o
       requires	 an  option-argument.  The  following example violates Rule 5:
       options with option-arguments must not be grouped with other options:

	 example% cmd -aboxxx filename

       The following example violates Rule 6: there must be white space	 after
       an option that takes an option-argument:

	 example% cmd -ab oxxx filename

       Changing	 the  value  of the shell variable OPTIND or parsing different
       sets of arguments may lead to unexpected results.

				  Jan 7, 2000			  GETOPTCVT(1)
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