The documentation is pretty sparse, isn't it?

Here's an example:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;

{
    package Calc::Role::BinaryOperation;
    use Moo::Role;
    use MooX::Options;
    
    option a => (
        is             => 'ro',
        required       => 1,
        format         => 's',
        documentation  => 'first number',
    );
    
    option b => (
        is             => 'ro',
        required       => 1,
        format         => 's',
        documentation  => 'second number',
    );
}

{
    package Calc::Cmd::add;
    use Moo;
    use MooX::Cmd;
    use MooX::Options;
    
    with 'Calc::Role::BinaryOperation';
    
    sub execute {
        my $self = shift;
        say($self->a + $self->b);
        exit(0);
    }
}

{
    package Calc::Cmd::subtract;
    use Moo;
    use MooX::Cmd;
    use MooX::Options;
    
    with 'Calc::Role::BinaryOperation';
    
    sub execute {
        my $self = shift;
        say($self->a - $self->b);
        exit(0);
    }
}

{
    package Calc;
    use Moo;
    use MooX::Cmd;
    
    sub execute {
        my $self = shift;
        my ($args, $chain) = @_;
        die "Need to specify a sub-command!\n";
    }
}

Calc->new_with_cmd->execute;
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If you save that as calc.pl you can run it like this:

$ perl calc.pl 
Need to specify a sub-command!
$ echo $?
255
$ perl calc.pl add --help
USAGE: calc.pl [-abh] [long options...]
    -a          first number
    -b          second number
    -h --help   show this help message

$ perl calc.pl subtract --a 9 --b 5
4
$ perl calc.pl add --a 9 --b 5
14
$ echo $?
0
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MooX::Cmd doesn't really "do" much. It's really just some glue allowing you to create commands that have subcommands. If you don't know what I mean by subcommands, git is an example. (Pretty much all command-line tools for version control systems are.) You don't type:

$ git --someopt --anotheropt
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Instead you need to provide a subcommand:

$ git subcommand --someopt --anotheropt
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If you don't need subcommands, then don't use MooX::Cmd; just use MooX::Options (which does the @ARGV handling).

And frankly, if you do need subcommands, I'd rather go with App::Cmd which is IMHO a better, more integrated approach to writing command line apps. My general technique for command-line apps in fact is to use Moo or Moose classes and roles for the "business logic", and then use App::Cmd for the command-line glue. On-demand run-time loading of the classes and roles can result in a pretty snappy command-line interface, even if using the slow old Moose!

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