Is there a recommended alternative to getopts?

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  • argbash

    Bash argument parsing code generator

    • Yeah, now that I look at it a bit closer, it is quirky. Not unmanageable, but I think I prefer something like Argparse which generates the parsing code for you using a simpler language.

  • sh_libpath

    Making shell scripts more robust with libraries

    • 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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  • getoptions

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

    • I like to use https://github.com/ko1nksm/getoptions

  • shflags

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

    • Wow thanks! I just found another option, https://github.com/kward/shflags, but yours looks even better.

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