Cross-platform getopt for a shell script

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Published on 2010-04-27T14:19:09Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 10:33 UTC
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I've just found out that getopt is not cross-platform (in particular for FreeBSD and Linux). What is the best workaround for this issue?

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