Many Java applications started from the command line take arguments to control their behavior. These arguments are available in the string array argument passed into the application’s static main() ...

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 Command ...

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/yak ...

(The below post is brought to you from years of being irritated by other programmers' quirky command line syntax, and my acknowledgement that for many small apps, doing it "right" can take up way too ...