BASH: Script Input Flags

[Grizzlyman]

Hi. Im wondering if there is a way to use flags when starting a script.
Something like this.

Script -a -b 10

Right now Ive got something like this.

while getopts ab AA
   do case $AA in
       a) var="value"
       ;;
   esac
done

So with that code I can only use flags ( -a -b ). Can I do the -b 10 so it will store say varB=10?

[HROAdmin26]

Getopts command in Linux Shell Script

From the manual page,
"optstring contains the option letters to be recognized; if a letter is followed by a colon, the option is expected to have an argument, which should be separated from it by white space. Each time it is invoked, getopts places the next option in the shell variable variable_name, When an option requires an argument, getopts places that argument into the variable OPTARG. On errors getopts diagnostic messages are printed when illegal options or missing option arguments are encountered. If an illegal option is seen, getopts places ? into variable_name."

[Grizzlyman]

So then the script would look like this.

while getopts ab: AA
   do case $AA in
       a) var="value"
       ;;
       b) varB=$optarg
   esac
done

when I run the scirpt like this

Script -a -b 10

So $varB = 10?