Use real options parser

[miltieIV2]

Hand coded options parses are always a bad idea.

At least use getopts BASH built-in: https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/howto/getopts_tutorial

Or even better, getoptions: https://dev.to/ko1nksm/the-easiest-way-to-parse-arguments-using-getoptions-for-bash-and-shell-scripts-47p5

[johanhaleby]

That would be pretty neat. So getopts is built-in to bash? There's no need for an extra dependency or something like that?

[miltieIV2]

Yeah, getopts is built-in, but only single letter, so it would break your existing long options. The getoptions path would mean pulling in more external stuff, but you give you more expected, standard behavior. It took me several iterations to figure out that the pod name has to come first or it just plain doesn't work.