argbash
Bash argument parsing code generator (by matejak)
shflags
shFlags is a port of the Google gflags library for Unix shell. (by kward)
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| 0.0 | 6.0 | |
| 2 months ago | 3 months ago | |
| M4 | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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argbash
Posts with mentions or reviews of argbash.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-04.
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Is there a recommended alternative to getopts?
Yeah, now that I look at it a bit closer, it is quirky. Not unmanageable, but I think I prefer something like Argparse which generates the parsing code for you using a simpler language.
- Bashkit V1
- BashLib a helpful source file for any script
- Argbash: Bash argument parsing code generator
- GitHub - matejak/argbash: Bash argument parsing code generator
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Hacker News top posts: Mar 22, 2022
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shflags
Posts with mentions or reviews of shflags.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-04.
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Is there a recommended alternative to getopts?
Wow thanks! I just found another option, https://github.com/kward/shflags, but yours looks even better.
- jetopt: a dead simple wrapper around getopt you always dreamed of!
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Bash's getopts is really frustrating to work with, so I made a helper that simplifies it to just a line or two
If getopts isn't doing it for you, there are already existing libraries to assist. Kate Ward's shflags and Matěj Týč's argbash are a couple of the better established/known ones. Although there are others e.g.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing argbash and shflags you can also consider the following projects:
bash-argsparse - An high level argument parsing library for bash
getoptions - An elegant option/argument parser for shell scripts (full support for bash and all POSIX shells)
docopts - Shell interpreter for docopt, the command-line interface description language.
modernish - Modernish is a library for writing robust, portable, readable, and powerful programs for POSIX-based shells and utilities.
sh_libpath - Making shell scripts more robust with libraries
oil - Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!
bash_opts - SImple Bash options parser
argparse-bash - Use python's argparse module in shell scripts