Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:39:59 -0400 From: Chet Ramey To: andy.philpotts@calendarcentral.com Subject: Re: getopts in functions Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Reply-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu Message-ID: <1001018143959.AA05597.SM@nike.ins.cwru.edu> Read-Receipt-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-In-Reply-To: Message from andy.philpotts@calendarcentral.com of Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:03:27 -0400 (id <122102925068.20001017180327@calendarcentral.com>) > Should getopts work correctly in functions? I find if I try that if I > get an error processing the options, then retry the function, it seems > to get confused. > > Do I have to do something explicit to reset getopts? Yes. The bash manual page says The shell does not reset OPTIND automatically; it must be manually reset between multiple calls to getopts within the same shell invocation if a new set of parameters is to be used. `Resetting OPTIND' means to assign it the value 1. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet) Chet Ramey, CWRU chet@po.CWRU.Edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com