getoptions VS kingpin

Compare getoptions vs kingpin and see what are their differences.

getoptions

An elegant option/argument parser for shell scripts (full support for bash and all POSIX shells) (by ko1nksm)

kingpin

CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser (by alecthomas)
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getoptions kingpin
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363 3,441
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0.0 5.2
5 months ago 22 days ago
Shell Go
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal MIT License
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getoptions

Posts with mentions or reviews of getoptions. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-04.

kingpin

Posts with mentions or reviews of kingpin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing getoptions and kingpin you can also consider the following projects:

shellspec - A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for bash, ksh, zsh, dash and all POSIX shells

cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

argbash - Bash argument parsing code generator

go-flags - go command line option parser

shflags - shFlags is a port of the Google gflags library for Unix shell.

urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go

jetopt - A friendly wrapper around getopt

kong - Kong is a command-line parser for Go

bash-argsparse - An high level argument parsing library for bash

pflag - Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.

bashew - bash script micro-framework - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing

cli - CLI - A package for building command line app with go