How to create a bash script that takes arguments?

Question

I already know about getopts, and this is fine, but it is annoying that you have to have a flag even for mandatory arguments.

Ideally, I\'d like to be able to have a scr

Answer 1

And I heard a completely opposite thing, that you shouldn't use getopt, but the getopts builtin.

Cross-platform getopt for a shell script

Never use getopt(1). getopt cannot handle empty arguments strings, or arguments with embedded whitespace. Please forget that it ever existed.

The POSIX shell (and others) offer getopts which is safe to use instead.