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Command-Line Arguments

``In the Beginning was the Command Line.''[Title of a marvelous essay by Neal Stephenson (available online at https://www.spack.org/essays/commandline.html).] Regardless of the system in which Ruby is deployed, whether it be a super high-end scientific graphics workstation or an embedded PDA device, you've got to start the Ruby interpreter somehow, and that gives us the opportunity to pass in command-line arguments.

A Ruby command line consists of three parts: options to the Ruby interpreter, optionally the name of a program to run, and optionally a set of arguments for that program.

ruby [
            options
            ] [--] [
            programfile
            ] [
            arguments
            ]

The Ruby options are terminated by the first word on the command line that doesn't start with a hyphen, or by the special flag ``--'' (two hyphens).

If no filename is present on the command line, or if the filename is a single hyphen (-), Ruby reads the program source from standard input.

Arguments for the program itself follow the program name. For example:

% ruby -w - "Hello World"

will enable warnings, read a program from standard input, and pass it the quoted string "Hello World" as an argument.
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