Fucking getopts, how does it work?

Is getopts builtin in most shells?
I've been told that it should work fine in bsh, bash and ksh. Dunno about the BSD/GNU implementations.

I want it to parse something like this:
scriptname {0 or more directories} destinationdirectory
scriptname -c destinationdirectory
scriptname -v {o or more directories}
scriptname -i {0 or more directories} destinationdirectory



Is it possible to parse with getopts or should I do it "by hand"?

Thanks in advance for any tip or information on implementation.

GNU bash has getopts, don't care about the rest but probably at least zsh does too.

What you want to do is fairly simple though and you might find it easier to do it manually (just like breathing manually). And of course, you may want to use a real programming language like FIOC.