From: jared r r spiegel (jrrsice-nine.org)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2006 - 21:10:22 CDT

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regarding:
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EXAMPLES
     The following code fragment shows how one might process the arguments for
     a command that can take the options -a and -b, and the option -o, which
     requires an argument.
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  code snippet has '-a|-b) flag=$1; shift;;' in there for the example
  -a and -b options.

  the way it's written, ${flag} will be either '-a' or '-b' depending on
  which one of them appeared last in the args, so given that we don't
  know anything about the command the code snippet is meant to be an
  example for, is it safe to assume that the code snippet is "Right"
  and thus the eventual target command it's getopt(1)ing for takes
  "-a or -b" as opposed to "-a and -b" ?

  jared

Index: usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1
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RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1,v
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diff -u -r1.11 getopt.1
--- usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 14 Jan 2006 09:37:24 -0000 1.11
+++ usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 3 Sep 2006 02:04:00 -0000
-49,7 +49,7
 The following code fragment shows how one might process the arguments
 for a command that can take the options
 .Fl a
-and
+or
 .Fl b ,
 and the option
 .Fl o ,

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