'Are there any naming conventions for command line arguments?
Am reviewing a command line driven Java application with command line switches in lower camel case like this:
myapp aSwitch anotherSwitch aThirdSwitch
Am thinking all lower case and leading hyphens may be preferable:
myapp -aswitch -anotherswitch -athirdswitch
...or perhaps:
myapp -a-switch -another-switch -a-third-switch
... or maybe:
myapp --a-switch --another-switch --a-third-switch
But struggling to come up with a compelling justification. Would like to follow current conventions and be cross-platform compatible, at least for Windows/Linux.
Grateful for advice on what is the most commonly used convention out of these - and any reasoning behind it.
Solution 1:[1]
I work mostly on linux, but the usual is
app -<option1> <option1 value> -<option2> <option2 value> -<option2> <option3 value>
If every option has a value or parameter to pass
myapp -o1 aSwitch -o2 anotherSwitch -o3 aThirdSwitch
Sources
This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Overflow and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Source: Stack Overflow
| Solution | Source |
|---|---|
| Solution 1 | Nagarz |