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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF |
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE. |
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.\" |
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.\" $OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.19 2002/12/04 21:42:22 millert Exp $ |
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.\" $OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.20 2002/12/08 18:12:50 millert Exp $ |
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.\" |
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.Dd April 19, 1994 |
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.Dd December 8, 2002 |
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.Dt GETOPT 3 |
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.Os |
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.Sh NAME |
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@ -244,10 +244,20 @@ as an option flag. |
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This practice is wrong, and should not be used in any current development. |
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It is provided for backward compatibility |
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.Em only . |
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Care should be taken to not to use |
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.Ql - |
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as the first character in |
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.Fa optstring |
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to avoid a semantic conflict with |
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.Tn GNU |
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.Fn getopt , |
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which assigns different meaning to an |
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.Fa optstring |
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that begins with a |
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.Ql - . |
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By default, a single dash causes |
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.Fn getopt |
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to return \-1. |
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This is, we believe, compatible with System V. |
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.Pp |
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It is also possible to handle digits as option letters. |
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This allows |
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