Correct to check for a command line flag in bash
- by BCS
In the middle of a scrip, I want to check if a given flag was passed on the command line. The following does what I want but seems ugly:
if echo $* | grep -e "--flag" -q
then
echo ">>>> Running with flag"
else
echo ">>>> Running without flag"
fi
Is there a better way?
Note: I explicitly don't want to list all the flags in a switch/getopt. (And BTW the bodies of the if just set a set of vars)
