Using getopts to process long and short command line options

Question

I wish to have long and short forms of command line options invoked using my shell script.

I know that getopts can be used, but like in Perl, I have not

Answer 1

I have been working on that subject for quite a long time... and made my own library which you will need to source in your main script. See libopt4shell and cd2mpc for an example. Hope it helps !