Trailing args using Apache commons cli library

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I found a command line utility in our code base where the author had written a homebrew command line parser, which involved more code than the utility itself did. I decided to switch it to using Apache CLI and things are almost working.

The utility makes use of trailing args, so it'd look something like this:

util --argA=1 --argB=2 foo blah blarg

where "foo", "blah", and "blarg" are used as an argument.

Is there a way to handle this situation? I'd rather not (and might not be empowered to) change the command line signature of this utility.

Disregard - I just stumbled across the getArgs() method from the CommandLine class, which appears to be exactly what I'm looking for. — geoffjentry, Sep 16 '11 at 20:07

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 29 '19 at 14:53

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Look at CommandLine.getArgList() or CommandLine.getArgs(), both return the "remaining" items from the commandline which were not handled by the options.

See CommandLine javadocs for details.

edited Jul 29 '19 at 14:53

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The link is broken , you can use tis one https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-cli/apidocs/org/apache/commons/cli/CommandLine.html – Michael Dussere Jan 02 '17 at 16:22
Adjusted the link, thanks! – centic Jan 02 '17 at 19:15

Trailing args using Apache commons cli library

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