Command line arguments are extra commands you can use when launching a program so that the program's functionality will change. Depending on the program, these arguments can be used to add more ...

The arguments and options you use on the command line can make command output easier to use.

In this article, I want to cover a more fundamental aspect of shell scripting: working with command arguments. I suspect that most shell scripts go through an evolution with their command flags, ...

The Linux command line is a text interface to your computer. Also known as shell, terminal, console, command prompts and many others, is a computer program intended to interpret commands. Allows users ...

Writing code to parse command line arguments is still necessary sometimes. When you need to examine command line arguments, see how and why you should use your open source Java toolkit and use ...

Using bash aliases in Linux can save time and having to remember complex commands - and it can be fun, too.

In this blog entry, I will look at using the Apache Commons CLI library, but there are numerous other choices such as args4j, TE-Code command line parsing, CLAJR (Command-Line Arguments with Java ...

Yes, I'm probably on a bender of posting a bunch of coding philosophy questions. . . What do you guys think the "standard" format and parsing of command line arguments should be? (When you are ...