[modem7]

What

The builder's own options only counted straight after the target. After the first other argument everything went to the create script, so ./build-templates.sh base --vmid 6001 --template --unattended --verify --send-test-mail me@example.com failed with Unknown argument: --verify from the create script.

Now --verify, --keep and --send-test-mail <addr> are recognised anywhere before a literal --, in any order relative to the create-script args. Every other argument after the target goes to the create script in order. A literal -- still ends option parsing: everything after it is passed through as it is, even --verify. The documented forms (base --verify -- --vmid 53000 ..., base -- ..., plain base) behave as before. Help, header comment and README updated.

Behaviour to know about: a create-script value that is one of the three option names (for example --hostname --keep) must now go after --. The create script has no --verify, --keep, --send-test-mail or --init options, so nothing clashes today. --init is also recognised anywhere before --, so base --vmid 1 --init is now the --init usage error instead of being passed on.

Testing

bash -n and shellcheck are clean. Argument parsing was checked on a copy that prints the parsed variables: the failing command above, options before and after --, --verify before the target, base -- --verify (passed through), plain base, --keep without --verify, --send-test-mail with no address, --init and --init base, an unknown target, --generate-only --verify. Real --help and --init still work.

Not run as root or on a Proxmox host, so no real build was started.