Getting value out of "man getopts"

[Carl Johnson]

Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz at gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Quartz <quartz at sneakertech.com> wrote:
>> Just to be 100% clear, are you referring to "getopt" or "getopts" (with the
>> 's')? They're closely related and often confused.
>
> Quartz,
>
> I'm interested in getopts with an 's', which is a built-in command.
>
> And I think I understand why "man getopts" shows me a largely useless
> page.  Builtin commands might exist for many different shells and the
> man infrastructure doesn't necessarily know which shell's
> documentation to display... so it gives just a generic manual.  Still
> leaves me wondering where I am supposed to go for csh's getopts man
> page.

I don't think that csh has getopts.  There is some information in the
sh(1) manpage, and that is the standard shell that will be used for
shell scripts.  The bash manpage has somewhat more, and probably ksh and
zsh also.
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