Fo my new job I’ve decided to try not to be so old and crotchety and use bash without complaining rather the just changing my shell to pdksh. Today I needed to process options in a shell function which I’ve done in ksh before. It turns out that you have to preface your option processing with OPTIND=1 if you are in a function. Dunno why but I’ll find it out.
Yet another open source journal