claptrap

Bring the power of Clap to shell scripts (by fujiapple852)
Review Args args-parser argsparse Bash Clap clap-rs CLI Cmd Command Line Tool Shell shell-script Getopt Getopts fish-shell Powershell Pwsh
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  • Writing Your Own Simple Tab-Completions for Bash and Zsh
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2025
    I’ve recently been building a similar tool [1] which defines a specification for CLIs, though the goals are slightly different to the tool you mention I think. I just added support for fish as it happens.

    [1] https://github.com/fujiapple852/claptrap

  • Rust CLIs with Clap
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jun 2025
    Something I’ve been working on recently is a command line tool [1] to bring the clap declarative command line parsing to shell scripts. Unfinished WIP but largely functional.

    [1] https://github.com/fujiapple852/claptrap

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fujiapple852/claptrap is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of claptrap is Rust.

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