On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 02:07:19PM +0200, j. van den hoff wrote:
> consider a default value definition such as
> defdest="HOST:/somedir"
> and a getopts `opstring' containing
> opstring+="[b:bck?The name of the backup destination.]:[dest:=$defdest]"
>[...]
> what this means, seemingly, is that `getopts' does not parse `opstring'
> correctly if it contains `:' on the rhs of the `:='.
You have to duplicate the colon to get it accepted as a literal colon, just
like you do elsewhere in getopts usage strings. Using your example, one quick
and dirty way to approach it would be something like
defdest="HOST:/somedir"
optstring+="[b:bck?The name of the backup destination.]"
optstring+=":[dest:=${defdest//:/::}]"
Cheers,
Bob
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