Thanks Gavin. If you see any good simple example of using GetoptLong, please post them for us. Thanks again. "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair / soyabean.com.au> wrote in message news:74627672.20030219204249 / soyabean.com.au... > On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 6:30:30 PM, Useko wrote: > > > Thank you, but its a bit advance for me. I'd like to start on how to parse > > arguments from a shell scripts such as the following: > > > usage: mktmpswap -c c0 -b b0 -f f0 > > Parsing arguments is best done with GetoptLong. See pickaxe. > > optparse.rb (in the current source tree) is reputed to have some > benefits, but I don't know of any documentation, apart from perhaps > in the source code. > > Gavin > >