minimist
minimist
parse argument options
This module is the guts of optimist's argument parser without all the fanciful decoration.
example
security
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Please use version 1.2.3 or later: https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MINIMIST-559764
methods
var argv = parseArgs(args, opts={})
Return an argument object argv
populated with the array arguments from args
.
argv._
contains all the arguments that didn't have an option associated with them.
Numeric-looking arguments will be returned as numbers unless opts.string
or opts.boolean
is set for that argument name.
Any arguments after '--'
will not be parsed and will end up in argv._
.
options can be:
opts.string
- a string or array of strings argument names to always treat as stringsopts.boolean
- a boolean, string or array of strings to always treat as booleans. iftrue
will treat all double hyphenated arguments without equal signs as boolean (e.g. affects--foo
, not-f
or--foo=bar
)opts.alias
- an object mapping string names to strings or arrays of string argument names to use as aliasesopts.default
- an object mapping string argument names to default valuesopts.stopEarly
- when true, populateargv._
with everything after the first non-optionopts['--']
- when true, populateargv._
with everything before the--
andargv['--']
with everything after the--
. Here's an example:Note that with
opts['--']
set, parsing for arguments still stops after the--
.opts.unknown
- a function which is invoked with a command line parameter not defined in theopts
configuration object. If the function returnsfalse
, the unknown option is not added toargv
.
install
With npm do:
license
MIT
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