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Paul King reassigned GROOVY-6027:
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Assignee: Paul King
> groovy -h could be more clear
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>
> Key: GROOVY-6027
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-6027
> Project: Groovy
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: command line processing
> Reporter: Andrew Eisenberg
> Assignee: Paul King
> Priority: Trivial
>
> Currently, {{groovy -h}} prints this:
> {code}
> $ groovy -h
> usage: groovy [options] [args]
> options:
> -a,--autosplit <splitPattern> split lines using splitPattern (default
> '\s')
> using implicit 'split' variable
> -c,--encoding <charset> specify the encoding of the files
> -classpath <path> Specify where to find the class files -
> must
> be first argument
> -cp,--classpath <path> Aliases for '-classpath'
> -D,--define <name=value> define a system property
> -d,--debug debug mode will print out full stack traces
> --disableopt <optlist> disables one or all optimization elements.
> optlist can be a comma separated list with
> the elements: all (disables all
> optimizations), int (disable any int based
> optimizations)
> -e <script> specify a command line script
> -h,--help usage information
> -i <extension> modify files in place; create backup if
> extension is given (e.g. '.bak')
> --indy enables compilation using invokedynamic
> -l <port> listen on a port and process inbound lines
> (default: 1960)
> -n process files line by line using implicit
> 'line' variable
> -p process files line by line and print result
> (see also -n)
> -v,--version display the Groovy and JVM versions
> {code}
> Typically, under the usage line there is a one sentence description of what
> the command does (see commands like svn --help and tar --help.
> Second, you could change {{usage: groovy [options] [args]}} to {{usage:
> groovy [options] [filename]}}.
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