Kotlin Tutorial #23: Build a CLI Tool with Kotlin

In the previous tutorial, you learned about Kotlin Serialization. Now let’s build something real. In this tutorial, you will build a complete CLI (Command-Line Interface) tool: a text analyzer that counts words, finds patterns, and shows statistics. In this tutorial, you will learn: Reading command-line arguments File I/O (reading files) Text analysis (word count, frequency) Colored terminal output with ANSI codes Argument parsing Error handling Structuring a real project What We’re Building A text analysis tool called TextAnalyzer with these commands: ...

March 22, 2026 · 8 min