Timeline for Shift bash arguments from the right
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| Apr 1, 2016 at 0:52 | comment | added | Wildcard | @dimo414 I'm well aware of that. As you can see I've now included the code example using flags. I just decided to post my answer without waiting until I finished the second example, since it's still useful without. Nothing wrong at all with optional positional parameters; I would happily use either of the code examples above in production scenarios. | |
| Apr 1, 2016 at 0:50 | history | edited | Wildcard | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 737 characters in body |
| Apr 1, 2016 at 0:45 | comment | added | dimo414 | The "first and third but not second" argument applies equally to commands that shift left; as soon as you start needing arbitrary subsets of the arguments you should be using flags. That doesn't mean that programs with optional positional parameters are fundamentally flawed. | |
| Apr 1, 2016 at 0:43 | history | answered | Wildcard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |