Shell Script 034-quota.sh

#!/bin/sh
# newquota - a front-end to quota that works with fullword flags a la GNU

# quota has three possible flags: -g, -v and -q   and in this script
#   we allow them to be '--group' '--verbose' and '--quiet' too:

flags=""
realquota="/usr/bin/quota"

while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
  echo checking flag $1
  case $1 
  in
    --help          )  echo "Usage: $0 [--group --verbose --quiet -gvq]"  >&2
		       exit 1 ;;
    --group | -group)  flags="$flags -g"; 	shift ;;
    --verbose | -verbose)  flags="$flags -v";	shift ;;
    --quiet | -quiet)  flags="$flags -q";	shift ;;
    --              )  shift; 		break ;;
    *               )  break;	       # done with 'while' loop!
  esac
done

exec $realquota $flags "$@"