Chapter 26. Parsing Command-Line Options
Most Linux programs allow the user to specify command-line options. Such options perform a wide variety of functions but are fairly uniform in their syntax. Short options consist of a - character followed by a single alphanumeric character. Long options, common in GNU utilities, consist of two - characters followed by a string made up of letters, numbers, and hyphens. Either type of option may be followed by an argument. A space separates a short option from its arguments; either a space or an = separates a long option from an argument.
There are many ways of parsing command-line options. The most popular method is parsing the argv array by hand. The library functions getopt() and getopt_long() provide some ...
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