{"id":1212,"date":"2013-06-26T01:17:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T01:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garysieling.com\/blog\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2013-06-26T01:17:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T01:17:16","slug":"processing-command-line-arguments-in-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/processing-command-line-arguments-in-java\/","title":{"rendered":"Processing Command Line Arguments in Java"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than parsing command line arguments yourself, Apache has a nice library to do it for you, called <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.apache.org\/proper\/commons-cli\/\">Apache Commons CLI<\/a>. 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