[Linuxcommand-discuss] long options with getopts

Hi 

I've been looking into using getopts for processing options passed to a 
script.  However I would like to be able to use long option-names.  I 
don't see how this can be done with getopts.  For C there appears to be a 
getopt_long is there anything similar for bash? 

TIA 

Bram Mertens

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