Bash Script Long Options/Flags

script.sh:

die() { echo "$*" >&2; exit 2; }  # complain to STDERR and exit with error
needs_arg() { if [ -z "$OPTARG" ]; then die "No arg for --$OPT option"; fi; }

while getopts ab:c:-: OPT; do
  # support long options: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28466267/519360
  if [ "$OPT" = "-" ]; then   # long option: reformulate OPT and OPTARG
    OPT="${OPTARG%%=*}"       # extract long option name
    OPTARG="${OPTARG#$OPT}"   # extract long option argument (may be empty)
    OPTARG="${OPTARG#=}"      # if long option argument, remove assigning `=`
  fi
  case "$OPT" in
    a | alpha )    alpha=true ;;
    b | bravo )    needs_arg; bravo="$OPTARG" ;;
    c | charlie )  needs_arg; charlie="$OPTARG" ;;
    ??* )          die "Illegal option --$OPT" ;;  # bad long option
    ? )            exit 2 ;;  # bad short option (error reported via getopts)
  esac
done
shift $((OPTIND-1)) # remove parsed options and args from $@ list


echo "alpha: $alpha | bravo: $bravo | charlie: $charlie"Code language: PHP (php)

Usage:

bash script.sh --alpha --bravo=value-here --charlie="Long value"Code language: Bash (bash)

Or:

bash script.sh -a -b value-here -c "Long value"Code language: Bash (bash)