Joerg Schilling schrieb: > Thomas Maier-Komor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've just stumbled across that ksh93 doesn't accept getopts strings for >> long options that are accepted in the old ksh (e.g. 'h(help)'). > > This is a result from using the Sun variant of getopt(3). > > The way it implements long options is not well planned as it is impossible > to have long options without associated short options. > > ksh93 is completely based on AT&T code and uses it's own getopt that is > different from the one in libc. > > Jörg >
Jörg, thank you very much for the insight. How would one write a script that works both with Solaris 10's ksh and OpenSolaris' ksh93 that accepts long options? Is it possible or should I switch to bash?! - Thomas _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
