https://bioinformaticsonline.com/snippets/view/43412/bash-script-for-getopts? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/snippets/view/43412/bash-script-for-getopts Wed, 29 Sep 2021 04:53:14 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/snippets/view/43412/bash-script-for-getopts #using : after a switch variable means it requires some input (ie, t: requires something after t to validate while h requires nothing. while getopts “ht:r:p:v” OPTION do case $OPTION in h) usage exit 1 ;; t) TEST=$OPTARG ;; r) SERVER=$OPTARG ;; p) PASSWD=$OPTARG ;; v) VERBOSE=1 ;; ?) usage exit ;; esac done if [[ -z $TEST ]] || [[ -z $SERVER ]] || [[ -z $PASSWD ]] then usage exit 1 fi]]> Surabhi Chaudhary