Ars Technica

Command Line Argument Parsing in Java

I find myself needing to write a Java console application and am quite rusty. Can anyone recommend a good analogue to Python's optparse library (or comment on the Apache Commons CLI)? Also, this is ...
InfoWorld

Command-line Parsing with Apache Commons CLI

From time to time, I find myself needing to handle command-line arguments in Java either for Java-based applications or for main() function implementations that provide a simple testing mechanism ...
InfoWorld

Customizing Groovy’s CliBuilder Usage Statements

There are numerous online examples that use Groovy‘s baked-in Apache Commons CLI based command-line parsing support. These examples include Groovy Command Line Options, Chris Mahns‘s Groovy Script: ...
Ars Technica

Command Line Arguments | Ars OpenForum

(The below post is brought to you from years of being irritated by other programmers' quirky command line syntax, and my acknowledgement that for many small apps, doing it "right" can take up way too ...
Linux Journal

Work the Shell - Parsing Command-Line Options with getopt

I've talked before about how I am a lazy shell script programmer. It might be because I'm simply not a full-time professional software developer, and I don't even administer my own servers anymore—I ...