Many Java applications started from the command line take arguments to control their behavior. These arguments are available in the string array argument passed into the application’s static main() ...

So I'm relatively new to C++ and I am writing code targeted to a Linux platform. I can't seem to find a preferred/standard way to parse command line arguments. I know I can roll my own parser, but ...

(The below post is brought to you from years of being irritated by other programmers' quirky command line syntax, and my acknowledgement that for many small apps, doing it "right" can take up way too ...

I've talked before about how I am a lazy shell script programmer. It might be because I'm simply not a full-time professional software developer, and I don't even administer my own servers anymore—I ...

One of the things ssh can do is execute a command on a remote server. Most of us expect it to work transparently when doing so, simply passing the command and its arguments on without any surprises in ...

In this article, I want to cover a more fundamental aspect of shell scripting: working with command arguments. I suspect that most shell scripts go through an evolution with their command flags, ...

Microsoft has released Windows Terminal v0.9, which adds command-line arguments, automatic creation of PowerShell profiles, and a new setting that you lets you close all tabs without confirmation.

In the previous installment in this series we looked at how to set up an Ada development environment, and how to compile and run a simple Ada application. Building upon this foundation, we will now ...