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 ...

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: ...

What are Command Line Arguments and why would you use them? Command line arguments are extra commands you can use when launching a program so that the program's functionality will change. Depending on ...

(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 ...

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 ...

What command line argument parsing libraries do you use?<BR><BR>When my needs run to Win32 C++ I like to use this one Keith Brown, via Chris Sells. However, searching for something for C# turns up a ...