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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Cmd.exe (redirect from Windows command line)
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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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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Whitespace character (section Command-line parsing)
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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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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Batch file (redirect from Microsoft command line script)
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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Shebang (Unix) (redirect from Shebang line)
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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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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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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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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C shell (section Command substitution)
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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Cucumber (software) (section Command line)
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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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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Parameter (computer programming) (redirect from Argument (computer science))
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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Printf (section 1990s: Shell command)
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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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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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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Environment variable (redirect from Dynamic environment variable (COMMAND.COM))
%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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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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Comment (computer programming) (redirect from REM (DOS command))
generator parses information from a codebase to generate API documentation. Many support reading information from comments, often parsing metadata, to...
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Conditional (computer programming) (redirect from IF (DOS command))
function (in Tcl known as command or proc). For example if {$x > 10} { puts "Foo!" } invokes a function named if passing 2 arguments: The first one being the...
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