On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 06:32:53PM +0200, j. van den hoff wrote:
> problem solved. thanks a lot for the quick help. I wasn't aware of the ":
> problem" in getopts usage strings up to now.
It applies to more than colons, it's just the way to escape characters in
getopts that have special meaning in certain contexts. Duplicating a
character is a common alternative to backslashes or other notations (I've run
across it before in my travels). For example, consider this fragment of a
usage string:
usage="
...
[+EXAMPLES]{
[+tr '[A-Z]]' '[a-z]]'?Blah blah blah.]
...
}"
Have a good weekend,
Bob
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