Scripting woes, cannot parse inut values properly..

[Bosse_B]

The last argument to the getopts call is optional and if missing getopts reverts to use the full command line arguments as given by $@.
But this seems not to work inside a function,
...
Seems like if inside a function it is unable to get the input arguments from the command line!
But reading these into a variable in mainline code and add that variable at the end of the call to getopts makes it work!

The reason that $@ doesn't work for you when used in a function is because inside a function the positional variables $0 to $9, $@ and $# refer to the function's arguments rather than the script's.

So functions can take arguments in this scripting system? None of the tutorials I have found show examples of that. In that case I should really send the $@ as an argument to my function...
I will have to search for such examples now. Arguments to functions is what I use in all other languages instead of using globals (ouch!)...

[jbudd]

Mostly "$VAR" is the same thing as ${VAR} and even "${VAR}" It all gets much more tricky when $VAR is an array.
There are circumstances where you need every quote and bracket you can think of: arrayName2=("${arrayName1[@]}")
In cases like that I try and find an alternative, less cryptic approach!

[epoch1970]

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$ msg(){ echo "Received: $1"; }; for str in "foo" "bar" "baz"; do msg "$str"; done;
Received: foo
Received: bar
Received: baz

[Paeryn]

So functions can take arguments in this scripting system? None of the tutorials I have found show examples of that. In that case I should really send the $@ as an argument to my function...
I will have to search for such examples now. Arguments to functions is what I use in all other languages instead of using globals (ouch!)...

Function parameters are used in exactly the same way as script's parameters, just as if the function was actually a separate script. Everything you can do with a script's parameter list outside of a function works on a function's parameter list when in a function.