Command-line arguments is part of Short Circuit's Console Program Basics selection.
Scripted main
See also Program name.

For parsing command line arguments intelligently, see Parsing command-line arguments.

Example command line:

myprogram -c "alpha beta" -h "gamma"

print( "Program name:", arg[0] )
 
print "Arguments:"
for i = 1, #arg do
    print( i," ", arg[i] )
end