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		hnarn on July 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Help Message for Shell Scripts I also really like the "flag" package for Go, it generates the help text for you and easily lets you set defaults as well as helps you type-check inputs.

PenguinCoder on July 7, 2020 [–]

I like https://github.com/jpillora/opts for Go arg parsing. It has better, sane defaults with long/short opts.

hnarn on July 8, 2020 | [–]

Cool, I'll check it out. There's something attractive about using stuff from the standard library though.

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