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From: toki clover <tokiclover@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: zsh[modules]/zutil: zparseopts should parse alternate long options
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 14:12:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGw_SrOBWv=s2Re8oZga=DSfqjQfEAJHXy9xfTqFzKNJuh4Z5Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

zsh/zutil is handy to get a nice parse option utilities and, in fact,
I use it often in scripts which permit to limit dozen of lines to just
parse options with getopt from GNU util-linux package. And once one
get used to it, one do not want to write again and again that long:
while [[ $# >0 ]]; do
case $1 in
   -o|--option) some_variable_asignement; shift;;
  ...
esac
done

case assignement.

Now, it would be nice if an alternate long option e.g. `-option'
instead of the GNU style `--option' would work, because in the present
day, if the first letter of a long option name is a short option name,
the long option would never be parsed as one would expect. So one
should use extra `-' hyphens to get his/her long option parsed, so to
speak, to use a la GNU style long option way.

Thanks.


             reply	other threads:[~2012-04-09 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-09 14:12 toki clover [this message]
2012-04-09 21:42 ` Bart Schaefer

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