command-line option

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option
noun
uk
/ˈɒp.ʃən/us
/ˈɑːp.ʃən/
one thing that can be chosen from a set of possibilities, or the freedom to make ...
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Bycommand-lineoption, a user can force the program generator to simplify all expressions.
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It could, however, be uncensored with thecommand-lineoptionblood.
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Finally, there are no command-line options or configuration parameters to remember.
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Variations in other interfaces are controlled by command-line options.
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Compared with code templates and command-line options, this syntactic extension is the simplest method of controlling how generated code is coupled to client code.
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To specify the interface to an encoding procedure, the programmer chooses a set of command-line options.
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Command-line options are self-explanatory; a view is a named collection of annotations.
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These commands include a broad range of command-line options that allow relatively fine control of the task being performed.
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Derivatives of getopt have been created for many programming languages to parse command-line options.
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The "getopt" function and program, and the "getopts" command are usually used for parsing command-line options.
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Most of the command-line options correspond to resource settings, as noted in the manual page.
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