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and it will work if script is run as: *YES: ./script --quick *YES: ./script -other --quick |
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How can I handle command-line arguments to my script easily?
Well, that depends a great deal on what you want to do with them. Here's a general template that might help for the simple cases:
# Bash while [[ $1 == -* ]]; do case "$1" in -h|--help|-\?) show_help; exit 0;; -v) verbose=1; shift;; -f) output_file=$2; shift 2;; --) shift; break;; -*) echo "invalid option: $1"; show_help;exit 1;; esac done
Now all of the remaining arguments are the filenames which followed the optional switches. You can process those with for i or "$@".
For more complex/generalized cases, or if you want things like "-xvf" to be handled as three separate flags, you can use getopts. (NEVER use getopt(1)!)
Here is a simplistic getopts example:
# POSIX x=1 # Avoids an error if we get no options at all. while getopts "abcf:g:h:" opt; do case "$opt" in a) echo "You said a";; b) echo "You said b";; c) echo "You said c";; f) echo "You said f, with argument $OPTARG";; g) echo "You said g, with argument $OPTARG";; h) echo "You said h, with argument $OPTARG";; esac x=$OPTIND done shift $(($x-1)) echo "Left overs: $@"
If your prefer to check options with if statements, then a function like this one may be useful:
# Bash HaveOpt() { local needle=$1 shift while [[ $1 == -* ]]; do case "$1" in --) return 1; # by convention, -- is end of options $needle) return 0;; esac shift done return 1 } if HaveOpt --quick "$@"; then echo "Option quick is set"; fi
and it will work if script is run as:
- YES: ./script --quick
- YES: ./script -other --quick
but will stop on first argument with no "-" in front (or on --):
- NO: ./script -bar foo --quick
- NO: ./script -bar -- --quick
Of course, this approach (iterating over the argument list every time you want to check for one) is far less efficient than just iterating once and setting flag variables.