On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:41:49PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> >>It turns out that when I
> >>called getopts, I had set IFS='-'.
I assume you mean "when I called die".
> die()
> {
> typeset opt
> typeset opt_s=1
> typeset opt_i=0
> typeset err_opts=
> OPTIND=1
> while getopts ':is:' opt "$@"
> do
> case $opt in
> i)
> opt_i=1
> err_opts='-i'
> ;;
> s)
> opt_s=$OPTARG
> ;;
> *)
> err "Illegal option to die: ${@:((OPTIND-1)):1}"
> exit 1
> ;;
> esac
> done
> shift $((OPTIND-1))
> err $err_opts -- "$@"
> exit $opt_s
> }
You have an unquoted $err_opts in this function, so IFS will certainly
affect that.
Let's suppose you are trying to end up with:
err_opts='-i'
...
err -i -- "$@"
But:
imadev:~$ IFS=-
imadev:~$ err_opts='-i'
imadev:~$ echo $err_opts
i
