On Sat, 02 Sep 2006, David Laight wrote:
> So you want the first arguments?
> if you don't need to worry about spaces in the options then:
>
> get_opts() {
> opts="$*"
> shift $((OPTIND-1))
> opts="${opts:%$*}"
> }
>
> then
> get_opts "$*"
Neat trick, but I think you want "$@" in the last line.
--apb (Alan Barrett)