`getopts` - parse option arguments in a shell script

getopts OPTSTRING NAME [ARG...]

Examples

$ while getopts "e:v" opt; do case $opt in e) env=$OPTARG ;; v) verbose=1 ;; *) usage ;; esac; done

a colon after a letter means it takes an argument

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