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Command line processing

Many server-side tools use a command line as their interface, and there should be a high-level way to deal with the arguments.

Prior Art

• Flusspferd's getopt module
• v8cgi's GetOpt module
• Microsoft WshArguments object in the Windows Script Host environment.
  • CommandLine object, by Olivier Mengué, a generic API to Unix-style parsed arguments with a concrete JavaScript implementation on top of WshArguments (CScriptCommandLine).
• Python's optparse module provides a reasonably powerful, flexible and full-featured option parser.
• Narwhal's "args" module example usage, the module