A good start to working around the limitations of bash's getopt

getopts-tryhard.sh

#!/bin/bash

function _template(){
  local OPTION1
  local OPTION2
  while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do
    case "$1" in  
      -o1|--option1) echo o1; OPTION1='true' ;;
      -o2|--option2) echo o2; OPTION2='true' ;;
      -h|--help) echo "listem            get all instances tagged with '${QH_APP_TAG}'

        [-r|--running]    show only running instances (for debugging)
        [-h|--help]       show this dialog and exit
        "; exit;;
      *) ;;
    esac
    shift
  done
  echo "option1: $OPTION1"
  echo "option2: $OPTION2"
}

case "$1" in
  t|template) shift; _template "$@";;
  *) echo '
    usage:

    t|template      do template
    help            show this dialog and exit
';;

esac