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() ...

Disabling Java in OS X requires doing so for each user account; however, even terminal commands for doing this may be a bit impractical to use as a substitute. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

The command-line interface (CLI) is the inner world of software development. From the shell, we have direct access to all the operating system’s capabilities, and with that comes the power to compose ...

I find myself needing to write a Java console application and am quite rusty. Can anyone recommend a good analogue to Python's optparse library (or comment on the Apache Commons CLI)? Also, this is ...

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 ...