shflags
shFlags is a port of the Google gflags library for Unix shell. (by kward)
sh_libpath
Making shell scripts more robust with libraries (by rawiriblundell)
| shflags | sh_libpath | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 7 | |
| 279 | 8 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.0 | 4.8 | |
| 3 months ago | 2 months ago | |
| Shell | Shell | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
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 shflags and sh_libpath you can also consider the following projects:
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
hssp - CLI to avoid remembering the http status codes
docopts - Shell interpreter for docopt, the command-line interface description language.
bash_opts - SImple Bash options parser