How can I have a default sub-command, or handle the case where no sub-command is given using argparse? import argparse a = argparse.ArgumentParser() b = a.add_subparsers() b.add_parser('hi') a.pa...

Implementing "nested" subcommands in Python with cmdln. I'm not sure I'm using the right terminology here. I'm trying to implement a commandline tool using cmdln that allows for "nested" subcomman...

I know that this question has been asked already, but I'm looking for Java cli parser with a specific functionality. I want it to be able to define command line tree, thus using subcommands (and mo...

I'm working with argparse and am trying to mix sub-commands and positional arguments, and the following issue came up. This code runs fine: import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() subp...

I have the following code (using Python 2.7): # shared command line options, like --version or --verbose parser_shared = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=False) parser_shared.add_argument('--versi...

I need to implement a command line interface in which the program accepts subcommands. For example, if the program is called “foo”, the CLI would look like foo cmd1 <cmd1-options> foo cmd2 ...

I'm trying to figure out how to use argparser to do the following: $ python test.py executeBuild --name foobar1 executeBuild --name foobar2 .... getBuild itself is a sub-command. My goal is to h...

argparse fails at dealing with sub-commands receiving global options: import argparse p = argparse.ArgumentParser() p.add_argument('--arg', action='store_true') s = p.add_subparsers() s.add_parser...

Is it possible to implement sub-commands for bash scripts. I have something like this in mind: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html#sub-commands