implement Connection flag parsing

add Shell Completion section to README

patch bump

README.md

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 ## Table of Contents
 
 - [Installation](#installation)
+- [Configuration](#configuration)
+- [Use](#use)
+- [Shell Completion](#shell-completion)
 - [License](#license)
 
 ## Installation
@@ -73,6 +76,7 @@ Usage: q3rcon-cli [OPTIONS] COMMAND
 
 ┏━ Options ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
 ┃ -i, --interactive   Whether to start in interactive mode (defaults to false)                     ┃
+┃ -v, --version       Show the version and exit                                                    ┃
 ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
 
 ┏━ Connection options ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
@@ -82,6 +86,14 @@ Usage: q3rcon-cli [OPTIONS] COMMAND
 ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
 ```
 
+## Shell Completion
+
+Shell completion scripts are available for *bash*, *zsh*, and *fish*.
+
+```console
+q3rcon-cli --install-autocomplete
+```
+
 ## Special Thanks
 
 - [lapetus-11](https://github.com/Iapetus-11) for writing the [aio-q3-rcon](https://github.com/Iapetus-11/aio-q3-rcon) package.

src/q3rcon_cli/__about__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026-present onyx-and-iris <code@onyxandiris.online>
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
-__version__ = '0.2.5'
+__version__ = '0.3.3'

src/q3rcon_cli/cli.py

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 import clypi
 from aioq3rcon import Client, IncorrectPasswordError
 from clypi import Command, Spinner, arg
+from clypi import parsers as cp
 from typing_extensions import override
 
 from . import console
+from .__about__ import __version__
 from .commands import (
     Fastrestart,
     Gametype,
@@ -37,6 +39,7 @@ class Q3rconCli(Command):
         help='The host to connect to',
         env='Q3RCON_CLI_HOST',
         group='Connection',
+        parser=cp.Str(min=1),
     )
     port: int = arg(
         28960,
@@ -44,6 +47,7 @@ class Q3rconCli(Command):
         help='The port to connect to',
         env='Q3RCON_CLI_PORT',
         group='Connection',
+        parser=cp.Int(min=1, max=65535),
     )
     password: str = arg(
         '',
@@ -51,15 +55,25 @@ class Q3rconCli(Command):
         help='The password for authentication',
         env='Q3RCON_CLI_PASSWORD',
         group='Connection',
+        parser=cp.Str(min=8),
     )
     interactive: bool = arg(
         False,
         short='i',
         help='Whether to start in interactive mode (defaults to false)',
     )
+    version: bool = arg(
+        False,
+        short='v',
+        help='Show the version and exit',
+    )
 
     @override
     async def run(self):
+        if self.version:
+            print(f'q3rcon-cli version: {clypi.style(__version__, fg="green")}')
+            return
+
         if self.interactive:
             await self.run_interactive()
         else:
@@ -68,7 +82,7 @@ class Q3rconCli(Command):
     async def run_interactive(self):
         print(
             clypi.style('Entering interactive mode. Type', fg='blue'),
-            clypi.style("'Q'", fg='red'),
+            clypi.style("'Q'", fg='yellow'),
             clypi.style('to quit.', fg='blue'),
         )
 
@@ -99,15 +113,16 @@ class Q3rconCli(Command):
                     fragment_read_timeout=fragment_read_timeout,
                 ) as client:
                     try:
-                        if response := await client.send_command(
+                        response = await client.send_command(
                             command, interpret=interpret
-                        ):
-                            console.out.print_response(response)
+                        )
                     except TimeoutError:
                         console.err.print(
                             f"Timeout waiting for response for command: '{command}'"
                         )
 
+            console.out.print_response(response)
+
 
 def main():
     try:

src/q3rcon_cli/console.py

@@ -50,9 +50,8 @@ class OutConsole(Console):
         return OutConsole.COLOUR_CODE_REGEX.sub('', s)
 
     def print_response(self, response: str):
-        response = self._remove_colour_codes(response).removeprefix('print\n')
-
-        cprint(f'\n{response}\n', fg=self.style)
+        if response := self._remove_colour_codes(response).removeprefix('print\n'):
+            cprint(response, fg=self.style)
 
     def print_status(self, response: str):
         _slots = []