Does JavaScript have a way of passing in arguments through the terminal line like ARGV in Ruby?

Question

I wrote a simple script in Ruby that accepts a file path as an argument from the terminal and then performs a task with that file.

EX:

files = ARGV

html = ""

file = File.open(files[0])

file.each do |line|
    html << line
end

code = html.gsub(/\s+/, "")
string = code.gsub(/"/, "'")

puts string

and from the terminal I can type ruby file.rb ~/path/to/file (the path is the argument being passed.)

Does JS have an argument vector like this?

If using NodeJS, YES. Check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4351521/how-to-pass-command-line-arguments-to-node-js — Tushar, Oct 09 '15 at 20:42
in the browser, `document.currentScript.src` or arguably `window.location.href` — dandavis, Oct 09 '15 at 20:47

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 09 '15 at 20:57

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No. JavaScript itself does not support this.

edited Oct 09 '15 at 20:57

sawa

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answered Oct 09 '15 at 20:45

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Does JavaScript have a way of passing in arguments through the terminal line like ARGV in Ruby?

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