NAME

App::Cmdline::Options::Basic - set of basic options for command-line applications

VERSION

version 0.1.0

SYNOPSIS

# In your module that represents a command-line application:
sub opt_spec {
    my $self = shift;
    return $self->check_for_duplicates (
        [ 'check|c' => "only check the configuration"  ],
        ...,
        $self->composed_of (
            'App::Cmdline::Options::Basic',  # here are the basic options added
            'App::Cmdline::Options::DB',     # here may be other options
        )
    );
 }

DESCRIPTION

This is a kind of a role module, defining a particular set of command-line options and their validation. See more about how to write a module that represents a command-line application and that uses this set of options in App::Cmdline.

OPTIONS

Particularly, this module specifies the basic options, usually used by any command-line application:

[ 'h'         => "display a short usage message"  ],
[ 'version|v' => "display a version"              ],

-h

It prints a short usage message, something like this:

Usage: myapp [non-bundled short or long options]
     -h             display a short usage message
     -v --version   display a version

--version

It print the version of the application and exits in one of the two possible ways: If it is called from and eval expression, it dies (so you can catch it and continue). Otherwise, it exists with the exit code zero.

AUTHOR

Martin Senger <martin.senger@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Martin Senger, CBRC - KAUST (Computational Biology Research Center - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) All Rights Reserved.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.