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From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH] commands: help: ignore options after first regular argument
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:02:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230614090231.4141827-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> (raw)

If some-command -n foo bar -v fails, it would be nice to be able to
just stick help in front of the command to get help text. This doesn't
work currently, because getopt called for help will complain about not
knowing some-command's options. Fix this by only parsing help options up
to the first non-option argument (i.e. one that doesn't start with `-').

Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
---
 commands/help.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/commands/help.c b/commands/help.c
index ba8542b90f01..87c1368d746d 100644
--- a/commands/help.c
+++ b/commands/help.c
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 
 #include <common.h>
 #include <command.h>
-#include <getopt.h>
 #include <complete.h>
 
 
@@ -72,10 +71,16 @@ static void list_commands(int verbose)
 static int do_help(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 	struct command *cmdtp;
-	int opt, verbose = 0, all = 0;
+	int verbose = 0, all = 0;
+	int argi;
 
-	while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "va")) > 0) {
-		switch (opt) {
+	/* We can't use getopt() here because we want to stop at the first
+	 * non-option to support, so we can just prefix help in front
+	 * of a command with options.
+	 */
+	argi = 1;
+	while (argi < argc && *argv[argi] == '-') {
+		switch (argv[argi++][1]) {
 		case 'v':
 			verbose = 1;
 			break;
@@ -93,20 +98,20 @@ static int do_help(int argc, char *argv[])
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	if (optind == argc) {	/* show list of commands */
+	if (argi == argc) {	/* show list of commands */
 		list_commands(verbose);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
 
 	/* command help (long version) */
-	if ((cmdtp = find_cmd(argv[optind])) != NULL) {
+	if ((cmdtp = find_cmd(argv[argi])) != NULL) {
 		barebox_cmd_usage(cmdtp);
 		return 0;
 	} else {
 		printf ("Unknown command '%s' - try 'help'"
 			" without arguments for list of all"
-			" known commands\n\n", argv[optind]
+			" known commands\n\n", argv[argi]
 				);
 		return 1;
 	}
-- 
2.39.2




             reply	other threads:[~2023-06-14  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-14  9:02 Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
2023-06-14 14:21 ` Sascha Hauer
2023-06-14 14:27   ` Ahmad Fatoum

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