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CommandLineArguments

These pages make up the course notes for my Java programming course (run at Dallam, Milnthorpe, Cumbria). Hopefully they also make a useful self-learning tutorial.

If you have ever run a command from the command line (DOS prompt, shell prompt, etc.) you have most probably used command line arguments, e.g. something like

dir \windows (windows)

or

ls /home (Linux, Unix)

In the windows example dir is the command (a program) and \windows is the "argument" to the command. In other words a command line argument is a piece of information passed to a program when it is executed.

See CommandLineJava for more information about running Java from the command line.

This work is Copyright Chris Hunter 2007, you may use it for non-commercial purposes
under the Creative Commons license Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike.