https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/help-in-a-script/m-p/4366472#M346754 What is getopts? Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:37:53 GMT Waqar Razi 2009-02-25T16:37:53Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/help-in-a-script/m-p/4366470#M346752 I want to write a script to do the over the network ignite backups. What I want to do is the script checks if we supply options like -s, -a, -n through command line, if yes it uses them and if not, it uses the default values.<BR /><BR />I have done that by passing command line arguments but my manager doesnt want that. He wants to use the same option indicators as the original make_net_recovery commad. This way the input parameters don’t have to be in any required sequence.<BR /><BR />Can some one please provide me some guidance?<BR /> Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:21:34 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/help-in-a-script/m-p/4366470#M346752 Waqar Razi 2009-02-25T16:21:34Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/help-in-a-script/m-p/4366471#M346753 Can you use "getopts"? Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:32:28 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/help-in-a-script/m-p/4366471#M346753 Tingli 2009-02-25T16:32:28Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/help-in-a-script/m-p/4366472#M346754 What is getopts? Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:37:53 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/help-in-a-script/m-p/4366472#M346754 Waqar Razi 2009-02-25T16:37:53Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/help-in-a-script/m-p/4366473#M346755 <A href="http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/getopts.1.asp" target="_blank">http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/getopts.1.asp</A> Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:39:53 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/help-in-a-script/m-p/4366473#M346755 Tingli 2009-02-25T16:39:53Z