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Date:      Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:26:36 +0300 (MSK)
From:      "Oleg A. Mamontov" <oleg@mamontov.net>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   docs/133118: Error in getopt (1) manual EXAMPLES section
Message-ID:  <200903270926.n2R9Qa2f086442@dev2.rambler.ru>
Resent-Message-ID: <200903270930.n2R9U3EG091535@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         133118
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Error in getopt (1) manual EXAMPLES section
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 27 09:30:02 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Oleg A. Mamontov
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.0-20080303-SNAP amd64
>Organization:
Rambler Internet Holding
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD dev2.rambler.ru 7.0-20080303-SNAP FreeBSD 7.0-20080303-SNAP #1: Tue Apr 8 13:54:52 MSD 2008 root@dev2.rambler.ru:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/DEV2 amd64
>Description:
The man page for getopt(1) contains incorrect example.

for i
do
    case "$i"
    in
       ...
done

Variable $@ expanded to list of options and their values (if any).
Loop variable ($i) will contain both (but should contain only options).

This invalid example was imported from NetBSD cvs in Revision 1.1:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1?rev=1.1;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup

Later this was fixed in NetBSD:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1?rev=1.10&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=MAIN

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
This piece of code should look like this:
while true;
do
    case "$1"
    in
       ...
done


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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