How do you pass a string as an argument to Node from the command-line?

Question

I'm new to Node and I'm trying to write a command-line tool in Node that would allow you to pass a string in as an argument.

I saw that Node seems to break each word passed in as an array when using process.argv. I was wondering if the best way to grab the string is to loop through the array to construct the string or if there was a different option?

So let's say I have a simple program that takes a string and simply console.logs it out. It would look something like this.

> node index.js This is a sentence.
> This is a sentence.

Answer 1

You can surround the sentence in quotes, i.e.

> node index.js "This is a sentence."

Another option is to join the text in your program:

process.argv.shift()  // skip node.exe
process.argv.shift()  // skip name of js file

console.log(process.argv.join(" "))