I have slept on this and I think bash is working correctly. If you put "-a test -b -c" all inside quotes it will be treated as a single flag/argument. Leave out the quotes and it will treat it as separate arguments. So below "-a test -b -c" is one argument; -b and -c are the second and third arguments. Also try it without any quotes.
#!/bin/bash while getopts 'a:bc' flag "-a test -b -c" -b -c ; do echo "$flag $OPTARG" done gives: pe...@8300:~/Desktop$ ./test2.sh a test -b -c b c If a bash expert can confirm this and you can change the bug status to invalid. -- Bash script getopts strange behaviour https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522591 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
