On 9/15/19 3:57 PM, Roland Illig wrote: > The help text of getopts says: > >> Getopts normally parses the positional parameters ($0 - $9), but if >> more arguments are given, they are parsed instead. > > The positional parameter $0 (is it even called that way) is not parsed > by getopts. Its only use might be in error messages, but I'm not sure > about it.
You're right; getopts doesn't use $0 at this time. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/