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"

 
#!/usr/bin/env osascript
-- Print first argument
on run argv
  return (item 1 of argv)
end run
 