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Using getopts in bash shell script to get long and short command line options

I wish to have long and short forms of command line options invoked using my shell script. I know that getopts can be used, but like in Perl, I have not been able to do the same with shell.

Any ideas on how this can be done, so that i can use options like:

./shell.sh copyfile abc.pl /tmp/ ./shell.sh -c abc.pl /tmp/

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How to: Using getopts in bash shell script to get long and short command line options

Using getopts in bash shell script to get long and short command line options

I wish to have long and short forms of command line options invoked using my shell script. I know that getopts can be used, but like in Perl, I have not been able to do the same with shell.

Any ideas on how this can be done, so that i can use options like:

./shell.sh copyfile abc.pl /tmp/ ./shell.sh -c abc.pl /tmp/

In…