In article <2569 at ttrdc.UUCP> levy at ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes: >All youse guys are missing the REALLY illegal, non-wildcard getopt option. >It is ":". Actually I didn't miss it. The same yoyo implementor who is likely to make = a valid option is also likely to pass getopts a list like ":abc:d:ef".