On Fri, November 13, 2015 1:02 pm, Dennis Williamson wrote: > Your opts string needs to begin with a colon to enable silent error > reporting and you need to handle the colon in your case statement as the > condition where a required argument is missing.
Hi, Dennis - thanks for replying. I get the same behavior with silent reporting. My real script where I discovered this behavior actually uses silent reporting - I didn't use it in my example to keep things simple. > Snippets: > > > opts=:a:b:c > > > :) echo "Missing argument for option -$OPTARG" >&2;; > > > You should escape the question mark since otherwise it's a globbing > character: You are right! I missed that when throwing together my example script. > \?) echo "Unknown option: -$OPTARG" >&2; exit 1;; > > > -- > Visit serverfault.com to get your system administration questions > answered. >
