Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <808d4e7c050102215047f81fb4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 23:50:13 -0600 From: Kenneth Stephen Reply-To: Kenneth Stephen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [pdksh]getopts problem in conjunction with shift Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Hi, I have the following script (a.ksh) : $ cat a.ksh #!/usr/bin/ksh -x echo $* getopts abc var echo $? echo $var echo $OPTIND echo $OPTARG shift echo $* getopts abc var echo $? echo $var echo $OPTIND echo $OPTARG When run on AIX ksh, it produces the following (expected output) : $ ./a.ksh -a something + echo -a something -a something + getopts abc var + echo 0 0 + echo a a + echo 2 2 + echo + shift + echo something something + getopts abc var + echo 1 1 + echo ? ? + echo 2 2 + echo On Cygwin (pdksh 5.2.14-3), it produces : bash-2.05b$ ./a.ksh -a something + echo -a something -a something + getopts abc var + echo 0 0 + echo a a + echo 2 2 + echo + shift + echo something something + getopts abc var ./a.ksh[14]: -m: unknown option + echo 0 0 + echo ? ? + echo 2 2 + echo Why is it dying like this? Thanks, Kenneth -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/