Top 9 Command-line Argument Parser Open-Source Projects

picocli

29 4,714 8.8 Java

Picocli is a modern framework for building powerful, user-friendly, GraalVM-enabled command line apps with ease. It supports colors, autocompletion, subcommands, and more. In 1 source file so apps can include as source & avoid adding a dependency. Written in Java, usable from Groovy, Kotlin, Scala, etc.

Project mention: GraalVM for JDK 21 is here | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-19

Picocli allows using a compiler annotation processor to generate classes at compile time instead [0].
[0]: https://github.com/remkop/picocli/blob/main/picocli-codegen/...

JCommander

0 1,924 7.5 Java

Command line parsing framework for Java
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JLine

7 1,389 9.0 Java

JLine is a Java library for handling console input.

Project mention: FLaNK Stack for 15 May 2023 | dev.to | 2023-05-15

Airline

0 848 0.0 Java

Java annotation-based framework for parsing Git like command line structures
args4j

0 782 7.9 Java

args4j
Spring Shell 3

0 700 9.2 Java

Spring based shell
JOpt Simple

0 343 3.3 Java

Java library for parsing command line options
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airline

0 125 6.5 Java

Java annotation-based framework for parsing Git like command line structures with deep extensibility (by rvesse)
JewelCLI

0 60 0.0 Java

JewelCli uses an annotated interface definition to automatically parse and present command line arguments

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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