bash getopts with multiple and mandatory options

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You can concatenate the options you provide and getopts will separate them. In your case statement you will handle each option individually.

You can set a flag when options are seen and check to make sure mandatory “options” (!) are present after the getopts loop has completed.

Here is an example:

#!/bin/bash
rflag=false
small_r=false
big_r=false
    
usage () { echo "How to use"; }
    
options=":ij:rRvhm"
while getopts $options option
do
    case "$option" in
        i  ) i_func;;
        j  ) j_arg=$OPTARG;;
        r  ) rflag=true; small_r=true;;
        R  ) rflag=true; big_r=true;;
        v  ) v_func; other_func;;
        h  ) usage; exit;;
        \? ) echo "Unknown option: -$OPTARG" >&2; exit 1;;
        :  ) echo "Missing option argument for -$OPTARG" >&2; exit 1;;
        *  ) echo "Unimplemented option: -$option" >&2; exit 1;;
    esac
done

if ((OPTIND == 1))
then
    echo "No options specified"
fi

shift $((OPTIND - 1))

if (($# == 0))
then
    echo "No positional arguments specified"
fi
    
if ! $rflag && [[ -d $1 ]]
then
    echo "-r or -R must be included when a directory is specified" >&2
    exit 1
fi

This represents a complete reference implementation of a getopts function, but is only a sketch of a larger script.

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