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teddyh on Oct 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bash code generator for command-line arguments

> getopt is discouraged

By who? Why?

This is the version that I’ve always used:

https://manpages.debian.org/buster/util-linux/getopt.1.en.ht...

JdeBP on Oct 2, 2020 [–]

Start at https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/62950/5132 .

teddyh on Oct 2, 2020 | [–]

Summary of that reference: If you’re on Linux, then you’re fine, and getopt(1) is good.

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