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.TH getoptcvt 1 "7 Jan 2000" "SunOS 5.11" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
getoptcvt \- convert to getopts to parse command options
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.nf
\fB/usr/lib/getoptcvt\fR [\fB-b\fR] \fIfilename\fR
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fB/usr/lib/getoptcvt\fR 
.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
.LP
\fB/usr/lib/getoptcvt\fR reads the shell script in \fIfilename\fR, converts it
to use \fBgetopts\fR instead of \fBgetopt\fR, and writes the results on the
standard output.
.sp
.LP
\fBgetopts\fR is a built-in Bourne shell command used to parse positional
parameters and to check for valid options. See \fBsh\fR(1). It supports all
applicable rules of the command syntax standard (see Rules 3-10,
\fBIntro\fR(1)). It should be used in place of the \fBgetopt\fR command. (See
the NOTES section below.) The syntax for the shell's built-in \fBgetopts\fR
command is:
.sp
.LP
\fBgetopts\fR \fIoptstring\fR \fIname\fR [ \fIargument\fR\|.\|.\|.\|]
.sp
.LP
\fIoptstring\fR must contain the option letters the command using \fBgetopts\fR
will recognize; if a letter is followed by a colon (\fB:\fR), the option is
expected to have an argument, or group of arguments, which must be separated
from it by white space.
.sp
.LP
Each time it is invoked, \fBgetopts\fR places the next option in the shell
variable \fIname\fR and the index of the next argument to be processed in the
shell variable \fBOPTIND\fR. Whenever the shell or a shell script is invoked,
\fBOPTIND\fR is initialized to \fB1\fR.
.sp
.LP
When an option requires an option-argument, \fBgetopts\fR places it in the
shell variable \fBOPTARG\fR.
.sp
.LP
If an illegal option is encountered, \fB?\fR will be placed in \fIname\fR.
.sp
.LP
When the end of options is encountered, \fBgetopts\fR exits with a non-zero
exit status. The special option \fB \(mi\(mi\fR may be used to delimit the end
of the options.
.sp
.LP
By default, \fBgetopts\fR parses the positional parameters. If extra arguments
(\fIargument\fR .\|.\|.) are given on the \fBgetopts\fR command line,
\fBgetopts\fR parses them instead.
.sp
.LP
So that all new commands will adhere to the command syntax standard described
in \fBIntro\fR(1), they should use \fBgetopts\fR or \fBgetopt\fR to parse
positional parameters and check for options that are valid for that command
(see the NOTES section below).
.SH OPTIONS
.sp
.LP
The following option is supported:
.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fB-b\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 6n
.rt  
Makes the converted script portable to earlier releases of the UNIX system.
\fB/usr/lib/getoptcvt\fR modifies the shell script in \fIfilename\fR so that
when the resulting shell script is executed, it determines at run time whether
to invoke \fBgetopts\fR or \fBgetopt\fR.
.RE

.SH EXAMPLES
.LP
\fBExample 1 \fRProcessing the arguments for a command
.sp
.LP
The following fragment of a shell program shows how one might process the
arguments for a command that can take the options \fB-a\fR or \fB-b\fR, as well
as the option \fB-o\fR, which requires an option-argument:

.sp
.in +2
.nf
while getopts abo: c
do
      case $c in
      a | b)     FLAG=$c;;
      o)         OARG=$OPTARG;;
      \e?)        echo $USAGE
                 exit 2;;
      esac
done
shift `expr $OPTIND \(mi 1`
.fi
.in -2

.LP
\fBExample 2 \fREquivalent code expressions
.sp
.LP
This code accepts any of the following as equivalent:

.sp
.in +2
.nf
\fBcmd -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\fR
.fi
.in -2
.sp

.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
.sp
.LP
See \fBenviron\fR(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables
that affect the execution of \fBgetopts\fR: \fBLC_CTYPE\fR, \fBLC_MESSAGES\fR,
and \fBNLSPATH\fR.
.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fBOPTIND\fR \fR
.ad
.RS 11n
.rt  
This variable is used by \fBgetoptcvt\fR as the index of the next argument to
be processed.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fBOPTARG\fR \fR
.ad
.RS 11n
.rt  
This variable is used by \fBgetoptcvt\fR to store the argument if an option is
using arguments.
.RE

.SH EXIT STATUS
.sp
.LP
The following exit values are returned:
.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fB0\fR \fR
.ad
.RS 7n
.rt  
An option, specified or unspecified by \fIoptstring\fR, was found.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fB>0\fR \fR
.ad
.RS 7n
.rt  
The end of options was encountered or an error occurred.
.RE

.SH ATTRIBUTES
.sp
.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp

.sp
.TS
tab() box;
cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i) 
lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) 
.
ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
CSIenabled
.TE

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
\fBIntro\fR(1), \fBgetopts\fR(1), \fBsh\fR(1), \fBshell_builtins\fR(1),
\fBgetopt\fR(3C), \fBattributes\fR(5)
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
.sp
.LP
\fBgetopts\fR prints an error message on the standard error when it encounters
an option letter not included in \fIoptstring\fR.
.SH NOTES
.sp
.LP
Although the following command syntax rule (see \fBIntro\fR(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, \fB-a\fR and \fB-b\fR are options, and the option \fB-o\fR
requires an option-argument. The following example violates Rule 5:  options
with option-arguments must not be grouped with other options:
.sp
.in +2
.nf
example% \fBcmd -aboxxx filename\fR
.fi
.in -2
.sp

.sp
.LP
The following example violates Rule 6: there must be white space after an
option that takes an option-argument:
.sp
.in +2
.nf
example% \fBcmd -ab oxxx filename\fR
.fi
.in -2
.sp

.sp
.LP
Changing the value of the shell variable \fBOPTIND\fR or parsing different sets
of arguments may lead to unexpected results.