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After receiving the arguments, you can print them as follows: int main(int argc, char **argv) { for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++) { printf("Argument %d: [%s]\n", i, argv[i]); } } Notes The argv parameter can be also defined as char *argv[]. argv[0] may co...

The following code will print the arguments to the program, and the code will attempt to convert each argument into a number (to a long): #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <errno.h> #include <limits.h> int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { for (int ...

Command-line options for applications are not treated any differently from command-line arguments by the C language. They are just arguments which, in a Linux or Unix environment, traditionally begin with a dash (-). With glibc in a Linux or Unix environment you can use the getopt tools to easily d...