C library function for parsing command-line options
Not to be confused with getopts.
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Getopt is a C library function used to parse command-line options of the Unix/POSIX style. It is a part of the POSIX specification, and is universal to Unix-like systems.
It is also the name of a Unix program for parsing command line arguments in shell scripts.
Getopt is a C library function used to parse command-line options of the Unix/POSIX style. It is a part of the POSIX specification, and is universal to...
the C interface of getopt. The predecessor to getopts was the external program getopt by Unix System Laboratories. The original getopt had several problems:...
defined(__STDC__) && __STDC__ extern int getopt(int, char * const *, const char *); #else extern int getopt(); #endif In the above example, a prototype...
software xz and liblzma binaries are public domain, unless the optional LGPL getopt implementation is incorporated. Binaries are available for FreeBSD, NetBSD...
called a dash or switch in this context. Various implementations of the getopt function to parse command-line options additionally allow the use of two...
put a file to an FTP server. getconf — Get system configuration values. getopt — Parse command line options and parameters. grep — Show lines matching...
configuration from a variety of sources. Console Build console applications using getopt syntax or routing, complete with prompts Crypt Strong cryptography tools...
encryption and passwords, July 1997 Root Compromise through Solaris libc_getopt(3), Jan 1997 BSD distributions of modstat allow compromise of DES keys,...
(PseudoPOD) The directory contains many modules with embedded pod formatting The Getopt::Euclid module parses input to a Perl script automatically based on pod...
SafeConfigParser) copy colorsys csv (no Dialect, Sniffer) datetime fnmatch getopt glob heapq itertools (no starmap) math mmap os os.path random re socket...
imagefont, scale); } return(image); } // rudimentary argument processing (getopt is also available) // first argument is height of image double sz = (argc...
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