1/* Example of Parsing Long Options with getopt_long.
2 Copyright (C) 1991-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
5 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
6 as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
7 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
8
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
13
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
16*/
17
18#include <stdio.h>
19#include <stdlib.h>
20#include <getopt.h>
21
22/* Flag set by @samp{--verbose}. */
23static int verbose_flag;
24
25int
26main (int argc, char **argv)
27{
28 int c;
29
30 while (1)
31 {
32 static struct option long_options[] =
33 {
34 /* These options set a flag. */
35 {"verbose", no_argument, &verbose_flag, 1},
36 {"brief", no_argument, &verbose_flag, 0},
37 /* These options don't set a flag.
38 We distinguish them by their indices. */
39 {"add", no_argument, 0, 'a'},
40 {"append", no_argument, 0, 'b'},
41 {"delete", required_argument, 0, 'd'},
42 {"create", required_argument, 0, 'c'},
43 {"file", required_argument, 0, 'f'},
44 {0, 0, 0, 0}
45 };
46 /* @code{getopt_long} stores the option index here. */
47 int option_index = 0;
48
49 c = getopt_long (argc: argc, argv: argv, shortopts: "abc:d:f:",
50 longopts: long_options, longind: &option_index);
51
52 /* Detect the end of the options. */
53 if (c == -1)
54 break;
55
56 switch (c)
57 {
58 case 0:
59 /* If this option set a flag, do nothing else now. */
60 if (long_options[option_index].flag != 0)
61 break;
62 printf (format: "option %s", long_options[option_index].name);
63 if (optarg)
64 printf (format: " with arg %s", optarg);
65 printf (format: "\n");
66 break;
67
68 case 'a':
69 puts (s: "option -a\n");
70 break;
71
72 case 'b':
73 puts (s: "option -b\n");
74 break;
75
76 case 'c':
77 printf (format: "option -c with value `%s'\n", optarg);
78 break;
79
80 case 'd':
81 printf (format: "option -d with value `%s'\n", optarg);
82 break;
83
84 case 'f':
85 printf (format: "option -f with value `%s'\n", optarg);
86 break;
87
88 case '?':
89 /* @code{getopt_long} already printed an error message. */
90 break;
91
92 default:
93 abort ();
94 }
95 }
96
97 /* Instead of reporting @samp{--verbose}
98 and @samp{--brief} as they are encountered,
99 we report the final status resulting from them. */
100 if (verbose_flag)
101 puts (s: "verbose flag is set");
102
103 /* Print any remaining command line arguments (not options). */
104 if (optind < argc)
105 {
106 printf (format: "non-option ARGV-elements: ");
107 while (optind < argc)
108 printf (format: "%s ", argv[optind++]);
109 putchar (c: '\n');
110 }
111
112 exit (0);
113}
114

source code of glibc/manual/examples/longopt.c