getoptions
An elegant option/argument parser for shell scripts (full support for bash and all POSIX shells) (by ko1nksm)
sh_libpath
Making shell scripts more robust with libraries (by rawiriblundell)
| getoptions | sh_libpath | |
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| 7 | 7 | |
| 367 | 8 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 4.8 | |
| 5 months ago | 2 months ago | |
| Shell | Shell | |
| Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
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Is there a recommended alternative to getopts?
I like to use https://github.com/ko1nksm/getoptions
- jetopt: a dead simple wrapper around getopt you always dreamed of!
- What is the best way to handle flags?
- Adding options to scripts
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The easiest way to parse arguments using getoptions for bash and shell scripts
A lot of people have been looking for a best practice to use getopt and getopts for long years. A number of methods to parse arguments were thought up, but no perfect solution was found. However, with the advent of the getoptions, that long journey comes to an end.
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What is the best practice for handling parameters and flags in a bash script?
Why not use a library instead of implementing it yourself? I wrote getoptions (not getopt or getopts) which many option syntaxes can be easily supported. A lot of options are no longer an obstacle, and there is no need to use another inappropriate language for such a trivial reasons.
- [POSIX] How to Implement --args and How Should Usage Be Formatted
sh_libpath
Posts with mentions or reviews of sh_libpath.
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?
There are a number of library files that offer a range of arg handling possibilities in different ways, I collated several of them here, but I don't have a favourite.
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Int or Str
Probably the best way to determine a "type" is to use printf. A lot of people will use a function or script called is for this kind of soft-heuristics, and there are many of them out there. Here's mine.
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How to get redirect download link using curl
I have a bit of old shell code here and the fundamentals of it appear to work:
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Using openssl command. Looking for a library of commands and ways to use these commands in terminal
I have a bunch of mostly certificate related examples here
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How would you determine if a publicly available app is up for an update?
Sometimes there isn't a direct API but you can get API-like behaviour. SourceForge is one example, you can get an idea for handling that (in bash) here
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A CLI to avoid remembering HTTP status codes
Out of interest's sake, I did essentially this a couple of weeks ago.
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Help doing Simple Temperature conversion script
You might find the code here informative
What are some alternatives?
When comparing getoptions and sh_libpath you can also consider the following projects:
shellspec - A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for bash, ksh, zsh, dash and all POSIX shells
shflags - shFlags is a port of the Google gflags library for Unix shell.
argbash - Bash argument parsing code generator
hssp - CLI to avoid remembering the http status codes
kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser
jetopt - Friendly options formatter for getopt
bash-argsparse - An high level argument parsing library for bash
bashew - bash script micro-framework - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing
docopts - Shell interpreter for docopt, the command-line interface description language.
macos-scripts - Various scripts for macOS tasks