shflags

Shell Flags – command-line flags module for Unix shell scripts

NOTICE(2015-06-26): shflags has moved to GitHub! http://github.com/kward/shflags

Shell Flags (shFlags) is a library written to greatly simplify the handling of command-line flags in Bourne based Unix shell scripts (bash, dash, ksh, sh, zsh) on many Unix OSes (Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.).

Most shell scripts use getopt for flags processing, but the different versions of getopt on various OSes make writing portable shell scripts difficult. shFlags instead provides an API that doesn't change across shell and OS versions so the script writer can be confident that the script will work.

shFlags is a port of the google-gflags C++/Python library.

NOTICE(2015-06-26): shflags has moved to GitHub! http://github.com/kward/shflags

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shell unix bourne bash dash zsh pdksh osx solaris linux sh ksh gflags command-line getopt