• Different command-line argument parsing methods are used by different programming languages to parse command-line arguments. C uses argv to process command-line...
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    function and program, and the getopts command are usually used for parsing command-line options. Unix command names, arguments and options are case-sensitive...
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    explanation needed] The set command can perform expression evaluation. An expansion of the for command supports parsing files and arbitrary sets in addition...
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  • JavaScript parser in JSLint on Pratt parsing. Comparison between Python implementations of precedence climbing and Pratt parsing: "Pratt Parsing and Precedence...
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  • Rebol (section parse)
    parsing, taking into account characters and delimiters. Block parsing is higher level, handling the scanning at the level of Rebol values. The parse dialect...
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    supplied commands and user written commands. The command line must start with a verb and is then followed by up to 8 parameters (arguments) and/or qualifiers...
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  • since it causes the value to parse as multiple arguments. Typically, a parser allows for escaping the normal argument parsing by enclosing the text in quotes...
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    letter instead of under an absolute path. When a command line does not match a command or arguments directly, spell checking can automatically correct...
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  • computing, command substitution is a facility that allows a command to be run and its output to be pasted back on the command line as arguments to another...
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  • the GetCommandLine API function. As a result, each Windows application can implement its own parser to split the entire command line into arguments. Many...
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  • Getopt (category Command-line software)
    the name of a Unix program for parsing command line arguments in shell scripts. A long-standing issue with command line programs was how to specify options;...
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  • Getopts (category IBM i Qshell commands)
    getopts is a built-in Unix shell command for parsing command-line arguments. It is designed to process command line arguments that follow the POSIX Utility...
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    the line #! /bin/sh, then the program loader is instructed to run the program /bin/sh, passing path/to/script as the first argument. The shebang line is...
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    Tcl (redirect from Tool Command Language)
    special substitution occurs before the parsing of any commands or arguments. If the final character on a line (i.e., immediately before a newline) is...
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    Sed (category Plan 9 commands)
    toothpick syndrome". The substitution command, which originates in search-and-replace in ed, implements simple parsing and templating. The regexp provides...
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    POSIX standard; Command parsing: Comments are ignored, from an unquoted # (hash) to the end of the same line; Commands are parsed one line at a time: Control...
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  • cucumber provides the --help option that provides a summary of arguments the command accepts. $ cucumber --help -r, --require LIBRARY|DIR Require files...
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  • addition to using Racket's library for command-line argument parsing: #!/usr/bin/env racket #lang racket (command-line #:args (base-dir ext re) (for ([p (in-directory)]...
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  • repeats a command for each out of a specified set of files. The FOR loop can be used to parse a file or the output of a command. The command is available...
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    arguments to another. `command` means take the output of command, parse it into words and paste them back into the command line. The following is an example...
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  • enabling dynamic runtime substitution of part or all of a command line, a command, or a command argument. In Pascal, @ is the "address of" operator (it tells...
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  • programming, a parameter, a.k.a. formal argument, is a variable that represents an argument, a.k.a. actual argument, a.k.a. actual parameter, to a subroutine...
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  • complements printf by providing formatted input (a.k.a. lexing, a.k.a. parsing) via a similar format string syntax. The name, printf, is short for print...
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  • argument1+argument2+argument3... The query string is composed of a series of arguments by parsing the text into words at the spaces. The series is separated by the...
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    This is a list of the shell commands of the most recent version of the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) – IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 which is part...
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  • %SWITCHAR% This variable defines the SwitChar to be used for argument parsing by some DR-DOS commands. If defined, it overrides the system's current SwitChar...
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    (init:get_argument flag))) (lists:merge data))) (defun get-pages () "With no argument, assume 'url parameter was passed via command line." (let ((urls (parse-args...
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    generator parses information from a codebase to generate API documentation. Many support reading information from comments, often parsing metadata, to...
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    PowerShell (category Windows command shells)
    and configuration management. As is typical for a shell, it provides a command-line interpreter for interactive use and a script interpreter for automation...
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  • of Responsibility pattern implementation 1.2 2008-06-01 CLI Command Line arguments parser 1.9.0 2024-08-10 Codec General encoding/decoding algorithms...
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