Building a simple CLI in Bash may seem like a herculean task; however, getopts provides an easy-to-use interface out of the box! For this tutorial, we’ll be using the https://pokeapi.co/ to build a simple CLI for fetching resources from the Pokemon world. What is getopts? Given from the documentation, The getopts utility shall retrieve options and option-arguments from a list of parameters. It shall support the Utility Syntax Guidelines 3 to 10, inclusive, described in XBD Utility Syntax Gu...
