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From: "Shields, Daniel [EQTY]" <daniel DOT shields AT ssmb DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: KSH is pdksh
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:20:16 -0000
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at least bash includes getopt...

$ cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash

while getopts x: c
do
    case $c in
      x) hat=$OPTARG;;
      esac
done

echo hat: $hat

ds83392 AT UKEQTGNT1 ~
$ ./test.sh -x hello
hat: hello

-----Original Message-----
From: Galen Boyer [mailto:galenboyer AT yahoo DOT com]
Sent: 25 January 2001 15:52
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: KSH is pdksh


On 24 Jan 2001, dkarr AT tcsi DOT com wrote:

> However, as I've come to discover after much pain, if you're
> already using Cygwin, there isn't much point to installing
> pdksh.  It's easy enough to create a symlink from
> "/usr/bin/ksh.exe" to "/usr/bin/bash.exe".  Poof.  You have
> Korn shell.  As far as I can tell, Bash can substitute for Korn
> shell in every area I'm familiar with.

Well, if I could find the equivalent to getopts, I think I could
get along without kornshell.  I found this feature to be
extremely useful when I was a heavy-duty KSH programmer, and now
I am coding a few scripts again and would like to take advantage
of it.

-- 
Galen Boyer
Fingers and toes, fingers and toes, forty things we share.
Forty one if you include, the fact that we don't care.


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