A stackoverflow post has a template for handling command line arguments.

Does the test [ $# == 0 ] mean that a bash script shouldn't be run without any argument? As a template, I think that scripts generally do not necessarily require any argument.

In the case statement, how different are the two cases *) and "?") ? They seem the same.

# --- Options processing -------------------------------------------
if [ $# == 0 ] ; then
    echo $USAGE
    exit 1;
fi

while getopts ":i:vh" optname
  do
    case "$optname" in
      "v")
        echo "Version $VERSION"
        exit 0;
        ;;
      "i")
        echo "-i argument: $OPTARG"
        ;;
      "h")
        echo $USAGE
        exit 0;
        ;;
      "?")
        echo "Unknown option $OPTARG"
        exit 0;
        ;;
      ":")
        echo "No argument value for option $OPTARG"
        exit 0;
        ;;
      *)
        echo "Unknown error while processing options"
        exit 0;
        ;;
    esac
  done

shift $(($OPTIND - 1))

param1=$1
param2=$2