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* which means that when the --help option is specified (in its long
* form), the help_flag variable will be automatically set.
* however, the parser for short-form options does not support the
* automatic setting of flags, so we still need this code to set the
* help_flag manually when the -h option is specified.
*/
help_flag = 1;
break;
case 'f':
/* optarg is a global variable in getopt.h. it contains the argument
* for this option. it is null if there was no argument.
*/
printf ("outarg: '%s'\n", optarg);
strncpy (filename, optarg ? optarg : "out.txt", sizeof (filename));
/* strncpy does not fully guarantee null-termination */
filename[sizeof (filename) - 1] = '\0';
break;
case 'm':
/* since the argument for this option is required, getopt guarantees
* that aptarg is non-null.
*/
strncpy (message, optarg, sizeof (message));
message[sizeof (message) - 1] = '\0';
break;
case '?':
/* a return value of '?' indicates that an option was malformed.
* this could mean that an unrecognized option was given, or that an
* option which requires an argument did not include an argument.
*/
usage (stderr, argv[0]);
return 1;
default:
break;
}
}

if (help_flag) {
usage (stdout, argv[0]);
return 0;
}

if (filename[0]) {
fp = fopen (filename, "w");
} else {
fp = stdout;
}

if (!fp) {
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to open file.\n");
return 1;
}

fprintf (fp, "%s\n", message);

fclose (fp);
return 0;
}

It can be compiled with gcc:

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