Shell Scripting: How to parse arguments passed to the script

[jucas_lo]

Hi!

I'm new to bash scripts, and I wanted to know how to parse arguments in a script, in the same way as the command line tools in linux do.

For example when you use find, and you wanna find files with a particular name, then you do "find -name somename".

I was wondering if there is a standard way to do that on a bash script, or if you just parse the arguments manually....

Also i would like to have long and short forms for my scripts options (such as -h or --help for a help option)

I'd appreciate any help or comment from you guys!

thank you very much!!!!

:guitar:

[dwhitney67]

Use getopt.

Reference the man-page for more details.

[jimi_hendrix]

use getopt.

Reference the man-page for more details.

+1

[jucas_lo]

Thanks guys that was exactly what I was looking for.