Facilitate command line argument processing for Java tools with a simple helper class Many Java applications started from the command line take arguments to control their behavior.

Does anybody know of an elegant implementation of a command-line parser written in Java? The one I'm using (JavaPopt can't match multiple arguments with the same flag (e.g. -I/home/yak/foo -I/home ...

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 ...

A programmer who is comfortable with sed, awk, cut, find, and xargs and who understands that the command line is not "lowest-common-denominator IPC" but an interactive REPL.