shflags
shFlags is a port of the Google gflags library for Unix shell. (by kward)
getoptions
An elegant option/argument parser for shell scripts (full support for bash and all POSIX shells) (by ko1nksm)
| shflags | getoptions | |
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| 3 | 7 | |
| 279 | 372 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.0 | 0.0 | |
| 3 months ago | 5 months ago | |
| Shell | Shell | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing shflags and getoptions you can also consider the following projects:
argbash - Bash argument parsing code generator
shellspec - A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for bash, ksh, zsh, dash and all POSIX shells
bash-argsparse - An high level argument parsing library for bash
docopts - Shell interpreter for docopt, the command-line interface description language.
kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser
sh_libpath - Making shell scripts more robust with libraries
jetopt - Friendly options formatter for getopt
bash_opts - SImple Bash options parser
bashew - bash script micro-framework - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing