getopt supports long options but the BashGuide recommends strongly against it: Never use getopt (1). getopt cannot handle empty arguments strings, or arguments with embedded whitespace. Please …

Aug 2, 2025 · /usr/bin/getopt supports both long and short options without a problem. The bash built-in getopts supports only short options. I tend to use the built-in getopts for very simple scripts...and …

Oct 30, 2021 · If you're on Linux (and don't care about portability), you could do what roaima suggested in the comments, and use the util-linux version of getopt (without the s). It supports long options too, …

Jan 2, 2022 · note that getopt and getopts are different tools. You wrote getopt in the text but tagged the question with getopts. But you're also using getopts in the code, so I guess that's what you actually …

Jun 18, 2022 · Are you referring to Unix getopt, Linux getopt or bash's built-in getopts? The used tag doesn't match the title of the question.

Aug 8, 2021 · The util-linux getopt takes optional option-arguments with the double-colon syntax. It's a bit awkward to use, and you need to mess with eval, but done correctly, it seems to work.

I have a script with this usage: myscript [options] positional-args... -- [fwd-params] Because [options] can have long, or short variants, I like using getopt. But I'm having troubles. I use getopt

Dec 12, 2019 · I already have a script that accepts only SHORT OPTIONS, and I want to extend the same script so as to pass the respective LONG OPTIONS. The existing code is given below. while …

Apr 13, 2020 · getopt - push default value if the argument is not provided Ask Question Asked 5 years, 7 months ago Modified 5 years, 7 months ago

There is a getopt command in bash command line. getopt can used with short options (such as getopt -o axby "$@"), and can be used with both short and long options (such as getopt -o axby -l long-ke...