clop

clop counts the command-line options a program advertises in its --help text.

Install

clop is a single, self-contained Bash script, with no runtime or build step. How to install it?

Option 1: After downloading, make it executable and put it on your PATH:

chmod +x clop
mv clop ~/.local/bin/clop      # make sure ~/.local/bin is on your PATH

Option 2: Or fetch it directly from a terminal:

curl -fsSL https://ternava.github.io/clop/clop -o clop
chmod +x clop
mv clop ~/.local/bin/clop

Option 3: From a clone of the repository you can also use the Makefile in tool/ directory:

make -C tool install                       # installs to /usr/local/bin (may need sudo)
make -C tool PREFIX="$HOME/.local" install # install into your home directory
make -C tool uninstall                     # remove it again

Then, see Usage for examples and output formats, and Support for exactly which help sources clop can and cannot read.

This is version 0.2.0, it adds per-program version detection on top of the first basic release.