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-Since Monkeysphere is using bash, it would be nice to use the shell
-build in getopts function, instead of the external getopt program.
-This would reduce an external dependency, which would definitely be
-better for portability.
-
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-
-So it looks like the sh built-in getopts does not include long options
-(eg. "--expire").  Is it worth getting rid of the long options for
-this?
-
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-
-Why not just get rid of getopts altogether and perform a simple
-argument-processing loop with bash string tests?  We're only invoking
-getopt in three places, and each invocation is no more complex than
-three arguments -- and most arguments take a separate parameter, which
-means that handling tricky arg blobs like -aCxr are not gonna be
-supported anyway.