What does the node command do with the -e argument passed

Question

When I put node -e "some argument string" into the command line, what does it do? I cant seem to find any documentation on this from google and stackoverflow searches.

Answer 1

It evaluates the script argument

node -e "console.log('test')"
> test

You can can get help and info by running...

node -h

Or:

node --help