From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-02-19T18:43:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby scripts for daily unix system administration

On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 6:30:30 PM, Useko wrote:

> Thank you, but its a bit advance for me. I'd like to start on how to parse
> arguments from a shell scripts such as the following:

> usage:  mktmpswap -c c0 -b b0 -f f0

Parsing arguments is best done with GetoptLong.  See pickaxe.

optparse.rb (in the current source tree) is reputed to have some
benefits, but I don't know of any documentation, apart from perhaps
in the source code.

Gavin