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When writing PowerShell scripts, in a perfect world, we'd all just use cmdlets and functions. After all, the batch file days are behind us! Unfortunately, that's not always possible or even the best ...

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 ...

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At the Microsoft Build conference this year, the company announced it will include a command-line text editor with Windows! This was followed up in a Windows blog post. We are introducing a ...