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.

>>5
getopts is a bash builtin, moron. getopt(1) is the POSIX utility.