getopts doesn't work in Ubuntu 9.10

[blaze_o_glory]

Binary package hint: yelp

This code does not produce any output:

#!/bin/bash

# submit like so: bash getopts.sh -b -c george
# or like so: bash getopts.sh -bc george

#an option followed by a colon requires an argument:
while getopts abc:def opt; do
  echo opt= $opt and OPTARG= $OPTARG
done

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 23 16:23:22 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64

[WeatherGod (ben-v-root)]

blaze_o_glory, thank you for taking the time to report this issue. I tried your script and it works fine for me. I can not reproduce your stated behavior. Have you done any sort of customization of your user profile?

[blaze_o_glory (dan-blanchette)]

Well, that script does work for me. I must have tested it without specifying options.

What started this for me is the CD ripping software abcde does not work
because the while loop that calls getopts does not process the options.

Does this do the normalization for you?
 $ abcde -b -o mp3

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that's not a yelp issue.

[WeatherGod (ben-v-root)]

Unfortunately, I have a netbook, so I can not test the command properly (since abcde can not detect a cd rom drive).

[WeatherGod (ben-v-root)]

Moving this report over to the abcde package since it seems that the OR might be experiencing an issue with command-line parsing in abcde

[blaze_o_glory (dan-blanchette)]

I figured out why I wasn't able to get abcde to process options. I was
submitting like so:

 abcde /media/cdrom -b -o mp3:"-b 256"

without specifying the -d option like this:

 abcde -d /media/cdrom -b -o mp3:"-b 256"

Unfortunately, there was no error message.

But I found out that that simply specifying -b does not run the normalization
process. I found that specifying "normalize" in the actions does make it work:

  abcde -a cddb,read,encode,tag,move,clean,normalize -b -o mp3:"-b 256"

Hopefully, this will benefit someone out there on the internet.

[WeatherGod (ben-v-root)]

ok, now marking this as invalid. Thank you very much for reporting what you learned. Please feel free to continue helping to make Ubuntu better by reporting any future issues you encounter.