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"

 
using system;
 
printf "There are %d command line argumants\n" argc;
puts "They are " $$ map (puts) argv;
 