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| <properties> |
| <title>Home</title> |
| <author email="dev@commons.apache.org">commons-dev</author> |
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| <body> |
| <section name="Commons CLI"> |
| <p> |
| The Apache Commons CLI library provides an API for parsing command line options passed to programs. |
| It's also able to print help messages detailing the options available for a command line tool. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Commons CLI supports different types of options: |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>POSIX like options (ie. <code>tar -zxvf foo.tar.gz</code>)</li> |
| <li>GNU like long options (ie. <code>du --human-readable --max-depth=1</code>)</li> |
| <li>Java like properties (ie. <code>java -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.net.useSystemProxies=true Foo</code>)</li> |
| <li>Short options with value attached (ie. <code>gcc -O2 foo.c</code>)</li> |
| <li>long options with single hyphen (ie. <code>ant -projecthelp</code>)</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| A typical help message displayed by Commons CLI looks like this: |
| </p> |
| <source> |
| usage: ls |
| -A,--almost-all do not list implied . and .. |
| -a,--all do not hide entries starting with . |
| -B,--ignore-backups do not list implied entried ending with ~ |
| -b,--escape print octal escapes for nongraphic characters |
| --block-size <SIZE> use SIZE-byte blocks |
| -c with -lt: sort by, and show, ctime (time of last |
| modification of file status information) with |
| -l:show ctime and sort by name otherwise: sort |
| by ctime |
| -C list entries by columns |
| </source> |
| <p> |
| Check out the <a href="introduction.html">introduction</a> page for a detailed presentation. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| |
| <section name="CLI 2?"> |
| <p>Commons CLI 1.0 was formed from the merger of ideas and code from three different libraries - |
| Werken, Avalon and Optz. In dealing with the bugs and the feature requests a freshly designed and not |
| backwards compatible CLI 2 was created in 2004, but never finished or released. </p> |
| |
| <p>The current plan is to continue to maintain the 1.x line. The CLI2 work may be found in the Commons Sandbox. </p> |
| </section> |
| |
| <section name="Documentation"> |
| <p> |
| A full <a href="introduction.html">User's Guide</a> is available |
| as are various <a href="project-reports.html">project reports</a>. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| The Javadoc API documents are available online: |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="javadocs/api-release/index.html">CLI 1.4 (current release)</a></li> |
| <li><a href="javadocs/api-1.3.1/index.html">CLI 1.3.1</a></li> |
| <li><a href="javadocs/api-1.3/index.html">CLI 1.3</a></li> |
| <li><a href="javadocs/api-1.2/index.html">CLI 1.2</a></li> |
| <li><a href="javadocs/api-1.1/index.html">CLI 1.1</a></li> |
| <li><a href="javadocs/api-1.0/index.html">CLI 1.0</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| The <a href="source-repository.html">Subversion repository</a> can be |
| <a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/cli/trunk/">browsed</a>. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| |
| <section name="Releases"> |
| <p> |
| The latest version is v1.4 - |
| <a href="http://commons.apache.org/cli/download_cli.cgi">Download now!</a> |
| <br/> |
| The <a href="release_1_4.html">release notes</a> are also available. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| For previous releases, see the <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/commons/cli/">Apache Archive</a>. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| |
| <section name="Support"> |
| <p>The <a href="mail-lists.html">commons mailing lists</a> act as the main support forum. The user list |
| is suitable for most library usage queries. The dev list is intended for the development discussion. Please |
| remember that the lists are shared between all commons components, so prefix your email subject by |
| <code>[cli]</code>.</p> |
| |
| <p>Issues may be reported via the <a href="issue-tracking.html">ASF JIRA</a>.</p> |
| </section> |
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| </body> |
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| </document> |
