args

args, a C code which demonstrates the retrieval of command line arguments.

This shows how a program can count and retrieve the individual command line arguments with which it was invoked. Thus, if our executable is called fu and we invoke it with the command


        fu man chu

then our argument counter will return the value 3, and the arguments, indexed by 0, 1 or 2, will return the values fu, man or chu.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

args is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

Related Programs and Data:

args_test

Source Code:

args.c, the source code.
args.sh, compiles the source code.
args.h, the include file;

timestamp.c, prints the YMDHMS date as a timestamp.

Last revised on 16 June 2019.