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

EasyOptions handles short and long options:

## Options:
##   --verbose, -v   Verbose mode
##   --logfile=NAME  Log filename

source easyoptions || exit

if test -n "${verbose}"; then
    echo "log file: ${logfile}"
    echo "arguments: ${arguments[@]}"
fi