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Use `getopts` to handle CLI arguments in lower-level scripts #182

Open atreyasha opened 2 years ago

atreyasha commented 2 years ago

:rocket: Feature Request

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Background

Currently, we handle CLI argument parsing on our own (i.e. without external tools).

Proposed feature

Our workflow would benefit from using getopt to aid CLI argument parsing.

atreyasha commented 2 years ago

We should use POSIX's getopts instead of Bash's getopt for reasons mentioned here:

https://github.com/archlinux-downgrade/downgrade/pull/196#discussion_r854453235

Since getopt only support short arguments, we could use these specifically for lower-level scripts that downgrade calls.