Using getopts inside a Bash function

Question

I\'d like to use getopts inside a function that I have defined in my .bash_profile. The idea is I\'d like to pass in some flags to this function to alter its be

Answer 1

The argument is stored in the varable $OPTARG.

function t() {
  echo $*
  getopts "a:" OPTION
  echo $OPTION
  echo $OPTARG
}

Output:

$ t -a bc
-a bc
a
bc