I was creating a bash script and was looking around for a solution for parsing command line arguments. [This StackOverflow post](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/192249/how-do-i-parse-command-line-arguments-in-bash) has a variety of different solutions available. I want to describe my favorite of these posts.
[Inanc Gumus](https://stackoverflow.com/users/115363/inanc-gumus) proposed the following:
```bash
#!/bin/bash
while [[ "$#" -gt 0 ]]; do case $1 in
-d|--deploy) deploy="$2"; shift;;
-u|--uglify) uglify=1;;
*) echo "Unknown parameter passed: $1"; exit 1;;
esac; shift; done
echo "Should deploy? $deploy"
echo "Should uglify? $uglify"
```
Let me quickly describe what it does. While the number of arguments left to process is greater than zero....
- Check to see if the argument matches any of the flags
- If it does...
- If the flag requires an additional argument grab it. Then discard an argument.
