Re: [PATCH] --foo bar cmdline argument parsing support for grub-* scripts

[Grégoire Sutre]

BVK Chaitanya wrote:
> I assume you are talking about /usr/bin/getopt (not libc getopt).
> /usr/bin/getopt comes with util-linux package (in debian), and yes, I
> too dont think it would be available on other platforms as bash or
> coreutils does.

You might want to use the POSIX shell built-in getopts instead of the 
getopt binary.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/getopts.html

This built-in is supported by bash, ksh, NetBSD sh, and surely many 
other shells.

Best regards,

Grégoire