Hey Brad,
Thanks for raising the topic. I wanted to mention we are now on a very old
version of commons-cli (1.1 from 2007). So I would suggest we first update
it.
While there is activity in the commons-cli github repo (a lot of dependency
updates as far as I can tell from a quick look), the last
The Apache Commons CLI library provides an API for parsing command line
options with the package org.apache.commons.cli and this is already used by
a dozen of existing Cassandra utilities including:
SSTableMetadataViewer, StandaloneScrubber, StandaloneSplitter,
SSTableExport, BulkLoader, and
