RHAT bug? /etc/init.d/functions:daemon()

[Steven W. Orr]

On Wednesday, Feb 1st 2006 at 11:16 -0500, quoth Michael ODonnell:

=>
=>
=>> I thought providing getopt *as a shell function* was a GNU
=>> extension.  Hmmm...  well, 60 seconds of Google work didn't find
=>> a definitive answer.  :)
=>
=>You went all the way to Oz when the answer was right in
=>your own back yard:

Don't confuse getopt for getopts. :-)

=>
=> # echo $BASH_VERSION 
=> 2.05b.0(1)-release
=> # type getopts
=> getopts is a shell builtin
=> # help getopts
=> getopts: getopts optstring name [arg]
=>     Getopts is used by shell procedures to parse positional parameters.
=>
=>     OPTSTRING contains the option letters to be recognized; if a letter
=>     is followed by a colon, the option is expected to have an argument,
=>     which should be separated from it by white space.
=>
=>     Each time it is invoked, getopts will place the next option in the
=>     shell variable $name, initializing name if it does not exist, and
=>     the index of the next argument to be processed into the shell
=>     variable OPTIND.  OPTIND is initialized to 1 each time the shell or
=>     a shell script is invoked.  When an option requires an argument,
=>     getopts places that argument into the shell variable OPTARG.
=>
=>     getopts reports errors in one of two ways.  If the first character
=>     of OPTSTRING is a colon, getopts uses silent error reporting.  In
=>     this mode, no error messages are printed.  If an invalid option is
=>     seen, getopts places the option character found into OPTARG.  If a
=>     required argument is not found, getopts places a ':' into NAME and
=>     sets OPTARG to the option character found.  If getopts is not in
=>     silent mode, and an invalid option is seen, getopts places '?' into
=>     NAME and unsets OPTARG.  If a required option is not found, a '?'
=>     is placed in NAME, OPTARG is unset, and a diagnostic message is
=>     printed.
=>
=>     If the shell variable OPTERR has the value 0, getopts disables the
=>     printing of error messages, even if the first character of
=>     OPTSTRING is not a colon.  OPTERR has the value 1 by default.
=>
=>     Getopts normally parses the positional parameters ($0 - $9), but if
=>     more arguments are given, they are parsed instead.
=> 
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