home.public.snippits/home/public/snippits/bash/bashGetopt.sh

#!/bin/bash
#  SOURCE: https://gist.github.com/cosimo/3760587
#  SEE ALSO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15103482/bash-getopt-command-returns-its-own-parameters-instead-of-command-line-parameter
#
# Example of how to parse short/long options with 'getopt'
#
# getopt links:



#   
 

OPTS=`getopt -o vhns: --long verbose,dry-run,help,stack-size: -n 'parse-options' -- "$@"`
 
if [ $? != 0 ] ; then echo "Failed parsing options." >&2 ; exit 1 ; fi
 
echo "$OPTS"
eval set -- "$OPTS"
 
VERBOSE=false
HELP=false
DRY_RUN=false
STACK_SIZE=0
 
while true; do
  case "$1" in
    -v | --verbose ) VERBOSE=true; shift ;;
    -h | --help )    HELP=true; shift ;;
    -n | --dry-run ) DRY_RUN=true; shift ;;
    -s | --stack-size ) STACK_SIZE="$2"; shift; shift ;;
    -- ) shift; break ;;
    * ) break ;;
  esac
done
 
echo VERBOSE=$VERBOSE
echo HELP=$HELP
echo DRY_RUN=$DRY_RUN
echo STACK_SIZE=$STACK_SIZE