From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-01-10T08:13:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Command Line Argument Processing

robertlaferla@comcast.net wrote:
> What is everyone using (other than manually) to process command line
> arguments?  I have looked at optparse (OptionParser) but it is not
> well documented.  Is there something better?  Or is there better
> documentation for optparse out there?

OptionParser is very good, and generates reasonably nice on-line help.

You might want to look at http://rubyforge.org/projects/optionparser/ as 
well (I haven't used it, but some people seem to like it).

If you want to use something very simple that you can paste into a 
script and hack up as you see fit, there is argos:

http://redshift.sourceforge.net/argos.rb

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