On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:52 PM Solene Rapenne <sol...@perso.pw> wrote:
> I'm not familiar with getopts, first time I use it and the man page was > confusing. It says "a colon following an option indicates it may take an > argument". > I understand this as: if I use the string "s:" then I can use "-s" or "-s > something" as it **may** take an argument. > > But if you use "s:", getopts reports an error "-s requires argument". > > I propose to modify that sentence (not sure for the s in requires). > > Index: sh.1 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /data/cvs/src/bin/ksh/sh.1,v > retrieving revision 1.149 > diff -u -p -r1.149 sh.1 > --- sh.1 28 Sep 2018 18:32:39 -0000 1.149 > +++ sh.1 29 Nov 2018 06:44:50 -0000 > @@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ to the index of the next variable to be > The string > .Ar optstring > contains a list of acceptable options; > -a colon following an option indicates it may take an argument. > +a colon following an option indicates it requires an argument. > If an option not recognised by > .Ar optstring > is found, > "requires" is correct there. ok guenther@
