Parse a small set of long options.
Bash Scripts: Use a loop and case statement to consume a value-bearing long option.
set -euo pipefail
set -- --name Ada --verbose
name=""
verbose=false
while (($#)); do
case "$1" in
--name) (($# >= 2)) || exit 2; name=$2; shift 2 ;;
--verbose) verbose=true; shift ;;
*) exit 2 ;;
esac
done
printf "%s %s\n" "$name" "$verbose"Expected output EXAMPLE
Ada true
Details
Requires Bash 4 or later. Save as snippet.sh and run bash snippet.sh in an empty working directory. Use a loop and case statement to consume a value-bearing long option.
Tested on Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS · · GNU bash, version 5.2.21(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) · bash 5.2.21-2ubuntu4; coreutils 9.4-3ubuntu6.3
Test inputs, results and environment
The exact published code ran in a dedicated Linux test container with prepared inputs. Snippet process uid 65534 with a read-only root filesystem and temporary working files. Networking disabled. Fixtures and output records are isolated from the application database. Testing covers this example and its stated checks, not every input, operating system, or runtime version. The Linux container shares its host's kernel; this is not a native Windows test.
- Architecture / host kernel
- x86_64 / 6.18.54.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
- Snippet identity / locale
- uid=65534, gid=65534 (unprivileged process) / C.UTF-8
- Interpreter invocation
bash -euo pipefail -c <published code>- Container image ID
sha256:ec91410a8f6ec3e985830b5e3a0560306d36f8c1c5ccd91a6699abe707123fa3- Code SHA-256
adf7f021a7032ff461c920b810500fce66b73fdc50ff21ccacc169234c661ee8- Dependencies
- bash 5.2.21-2ubuntu4; coreutils 9.4-3ubuntu6.3
Test input setup
These are the prepared inputs used by the test harness. See Details above for the prerequisites and how to run this example.
# No input files required.
Observed standard output
Ada true
Exit code: 0. Standard error: empty. Validation: Exact stdout comparison. System-dependent values above are one recorded run.