Thank you @xigoi, @cblake, unfortunately on Windows (my environment) the smart 
trick to pass the literal Tab to program
    
    
     cmdtest --sep:$'\t' 
    
    Run

on CMD shell produces
    
    
    $'\t'a$'\t'test 
    
    Run

and I didn't yet found alternatives. However on Windows PowerShell
    
    
    .\cmdtest -s:`t
    just    a       test
    
    
    Run

does work. However this OS environment + shell dependency does not make it the 
right way to go. While \t is pretty "standard" convention for Tab, `t is not. 
Thank you for your suggestion of cligen, it seems pretty powerful (the --help 
API auto-documentation alone is well worth to consider it).

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