Whats the easiest way to configure argument parsing in bash

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  • argc

    A Bash CLI framework, also a Bash-based command runner.

  • clap4shell

    Standalone wrapper of clap for shell scripts

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  • docopts

    Shell interpreter for docopt, the command-line interface description language.

  • click

    Python composable command line interface toolkit

  • Personally, I don't. By the time a program needs command line arguments, I've usually moved to a more full-featured language, like Python. (FWIW, I like Click for argument parsing in Python.)

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