getopt does not parse optional arguments to parameters

Question

In C, getopt_long does not parse the optional arguments to command line parameters parameters.

When I run the program, the optional argument is not recognized like t

Answer 1

I also ran into the same problem and came here. Then I realised this . You don't have much of a use case of "optional_argument" . If an option is required you check from program logic, if an option is optional then you need not do anything because at getopt level all options are optional , they are not mandatory, so there is no use case of "optional_argument". Hope this helps.

ps: for the above example i think the correct options are --praise --praise-name "name" --blame --blame-name "name"