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author | Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> | 2019-10-06 21:37:45 +0200 |
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committer | Dimitri Staessens <dimitri@ouroboros.rocks> | 2019-10-06 21:37:45 +0200 |
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diff --git a/node_modules/minimist/readme.markdown b/node_modules/minimist/readme.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30a74cf --- /dev/null +++ b/node_modules/minimist/readme.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +# minimist + +parse argument options + +This module is the guts of optimist's argument parser without all the +fanciful decoration. + +[![browser support](https://ci.testling.com/substack/minimist.png)](http://ci.testling.com/substack/minimist) + +[![build status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/substack/minimist.png)](http://travis-ci.org/substack/minimist) + +# example + +``` js +var argv = require('minimist')(process.argv.slice(2)); +console.dir(argv); +``` + +``` +$ node example/parse.js -a beep -b boop +{ _: [], a: 'beep', b: 'boop' } +``` + +``` +$ node example/parse.js -x 3 -y 4 -n5 -abc --beep=boop foo bar baz +{ _: [ 'foo', 'bar', 'baz' ], + x: 3, + y: 4, + n: 5, + a: true, + b: true, + c: true, + beep: 'boop' } +``` + +# methods + +``` js +var parseArgs = require('minimist') +``` + +## 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 +strings +* `opts.boolean` - a boolean, string or array of strings to always treat as +booleans. if `true` 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 aliases +* `opts.default` - an object mapping string argument names to default values +* `opts.stopEarly` - when true, populate `argv._` with everything after the +first non-option +* `opts['--']` - when true, populate `argv._` with everything before the `--` +and `argv['--']` with everything after the `--`. Here's an example: +* `opts.unknown` - a function which is invoked with a command line parameter not +defined in the `opts` configuration object. If the function returns `false`, the +unknown option is not added to `argv`. + +``` +> require('./')('one two three -- four five --six'.split(' '), { '--': true }) +{ _: [ 'one', 'two', 'three' ], + '--': [ 'four', 'five', '--six' ] } +``` + +Note that with `opts['--']` set, parsing for arguments still stops after the +`--`. + +# install + +With [npm](https://npmjs.org) do: + +``` +npm install minimist +``` + +# license + +MIT |