shflags
docopts
shflags | docopts | |
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3 | 4 | |
279 | 490 | |
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6.0 | 0.0 | |
3 months ago | 4 months ago | |
Shell | Shell | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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shflags
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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.
docopts
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Argbash – Bash Argument Parsing Code Generator
Huh, it uses M4 to build its DSL, how quaint.
I wish there were more projects on the other side of the spectrum: take the script's self-reported usage string, à la docopt [0], and derive argument-parsing code from that. After all, we have GPT-4 now.
[0] https://github.com/docopt/docopts
- Whats the easiest way to configure argument parsing in bash
- Argc – A handy way to handle sh/bash CLI parameters
- jetopt: a dead simple wrapper around getopt you always dreamed of!
What are some alternatives?
getoptions - An elegant option/argument parser for shell scripts (full support for bash and all POSIX shells)
argbash - Bash argument parsing code generator
bash-argsparse - An high level argument parsing library for bash
sh - Python process launching
sh_libpath - Making shell scripts more robust with libraries
bashly - Bash command line framework and CLI generator
bash_opts - SImple Bash options parser
bash-boilerplate - A collection of Bash scripts for creating safe and useful command line programs.
argc - A Bash CLI framework, also a Bash-based command runner.
clap4shell - Standalone wrapper of clap for shell scripts