Shell Script : how to make getopts just read the first character post `-`

Question

I have a shell script testShell.sh which uses getopts as below:

#!/bin/bash
while getopts ":j:e:" option; do
    case "$option" in
        j) MYHOSTNAME=$OPTARG ;;
        e) SCRIPT_PATH=$OPTARG ;;
        *) ;;
    esac
done

echo "j=$MYHOSTNAME"
echo "e=$SCRIPT_PATH"
shift $((OPTIND - 1))
echo "remaining=$@"

When I test run it like following:

$ testShell.sh  -jvalue1 -evalue4 -Djvalue3  -pvalue2

The output which I get is following:

j=value3
e=2
remaining=

But I would like the output as:

j=value1
e=value4
remaining=-Djvalue3 -pvalue2

Is it possible to make sure that getopts only looks at first character post - symbol? so that it doesn't interpret -Djvalue3 as -jvalue3 and -pvalue2 as -e2.

Answer 1

After posting it on 3 forums and searching everywhere... eventually I tried the following and it worked...

testShell.sh  -jvalue1 -evalue4 -- -Djvalue3  -pvalue2

Notice

--  

after -evalue4

And the output was

j=value1
e=value4
remaining=-Djvalue3 -pvalue2

I believe -- asks getopts to stop processing options.

EDIT: Here is the link which explains how this work.