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author | Leonardo Laporte <hackdorte@sapo.pt> |
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date | Wed Feb 24 08:39:49 2016 -0300 (2016-02-24) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/popt/description.txt Wed Feb 24 08:39:49 2016 -0300 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ 1.4 +Popt was heavily influenced by the getopt() and getopt_long() functions, but it 1.5 +allows more powerful argument expansion. It can parse arbitrary argv[] style 1.6 +arrays and automatically set variables based on command line arguments. It also 1.7 +allows command line arguments to be aliased via configuration files and includes 1.8 +utility functions for parsing arbitrary strings into argv[] arrays using 1.9 +shell-like rules.