Getting value out of "man getopts"
Steve O'Hara-Smith
steve at sohara.org
Tue Aug 4 11:06:42 UTC 2015
On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 11:51:20 +0100
RW via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 20:45:59 +0000 (UTC)
> Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>
>
> > > Questions:
> > > 1. Why does "man getopts" not help me with "getopts"?
> >
> > Because getopts only exists as a shell built-in, not as a standalone
> > command. Maybe you were thinking of getopt(1).
>
>
> $ which getopts
> /usr/bin/getopts
>
> It is implemented in sh, but it does exist.
However /usr/bin/getopts is linked to alias, bg, cd, command, fc,
fg, hash, jobs, read, type, ulimit, umask, unalias and wait (all
in /usr/bin).
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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>
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