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A guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.

CSS · active 2025-02-252026-06-20 (UTC)

Partial coverage11,637 / 12,810 hourly files (91%) · 2 absent upstream · 1,170 failed, retryable2025-02-232026-08-10 (UTC)— sampled evenly across the window, so rankings and trends hold; absolute counts scale up.
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253
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9
Pull requests
7
Issues
5
Stars
208
Forks
12

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Line chart, 481 days from 2025-02-25 to 2026-06-20. Pushes: 9 total, peak 3 in a day. Pull requests: 7 total, peak 3 in a day. Issues: 5 total, peak 1 in a day. Comments: 11 total, peak 2 in a day. Stars: 208 total, peak 22 in a day.

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Stars, PRs, issues and forks are under-captured in the later part of this window. GH Archive progressively stopped capturing non-push events during 2026 — −95% or worse by the end of the window. Every series here except Pushes fades for that reason, so a decline above reflects the archive, not this repository. Pushes stay reliable throughout, so read them, and the contributor counts derived from them, as the real signal. Data health has the measurements.

Top contributors

Pushes, PRs, issues, reviews and comments — stars and forks excluded, so this is contribution rather than popularity

ContributorContributionsPushesPRsComments
bfirsh16950
abitrolly4003
ssokolow2002
felix92020
Garbee2002
aanand1001
jagrat71000
tashian1000
ismailbennani1001
chrisirhc1001
TheRealJamesRussell1001

Recent activity

Latest issues, pull requests and releases

  • Issue#161jagrat72026-03-16 07:39
    Skill?
  • Issue comment#159abitrolly2026-03-10 10:18
    Passing `infinity` or `unlimited` for option value in command line
  • Issue comment#159aanand2026-03-08 19:47
    Passing `infinity` or `unlimited` for option value in command line
  • Issue comment#159abitrolly2026-03-07 04:47
    Passing `infinity` or `unlimited` for option value in command line
  • Issue#160tashian2026-03-06 01:40
    New section: AI agent ergonomics
  • Issue#159abitrolly2026-03-05 10:52
    Passing `infinity` or `unlimited` for option value in command line
  • Issue#114bfirsh2026-03-01 19:14
    argbash.io is now a spam-site.
  • Issue comment#103ssokolow2026-02-16 02:28
    "Increase information density—with ASCII art!" is problematic for accessibility
  • Issue comment#103ssokolow2026-02-16 00:20
    "Increase information density—with ASCII art!" is problematic for accessibility
  • Issue comment#103Garbee2026-02-15 23:16
    "Increase information density—with ASCII art!" is problematic for accessibility
  • Issue comment#103Garbee2026-02-15 11:49
    "Increase information density—with ASCII art!" is problematic for accessibility
  • Pull request#157bfirsh2026-01-26 02:22
  • Pull request#155bfirsh2026-01-26 02:00
  • Issue comment#152chrisirhc2026-01-16 01:54
    Exit code for default help without arguments
  • Issue comment#151TheRealJamesRussell2025-11-09 12:16
    Low color contrast affecting readability
  • Issue comment#150ismailbennani2025-09-12 20:44
    Add parser suggestions for C#
  • Issue#111bfirsh2025-08-01 14:58
    "Display help text when passed no options" only if no options are necessary
  • Pull request#141bfirsh2025-08-01 14:58
  • Pull request#143bfirsh2025-08-01 14:58
  • Pull request#146bfirsh2025-08-01 14:57
  • Issue comment#145abitrolly2025-04-12 09:49
    Print usage to stdout
  • Pull request#144felix92025-03-02 00:55
  • Pull request#143felix92025-03-02 00:29

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